Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 16:36:09 12/21/02
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On December 21, 2002 at 19:19:52, Dan Andersson wrote: >If you want performance. Go with the new NForce 2 boards. And get one with both >RAID and Serial ATA. My friendly neighbourhood computer purveyor prefers the >A7N8X board. > >MvH Dan Andersson On-board RAID is shabby, and current on-board Serial ATA controllers are just Parallel ATA controllers using a conversion chip which limits speed. It's nice if you want to get Serial ATA drives now so they're not obsolete later on, though. I use a 3ware Escalade ATA RAID controller, and even the low-end boards have higher throughput than the on-board RAID controllers. The 7000-2 is about $125. Bigger, better models get expensive very quickly. The 7500-4 is the controller I would like to have, but it costs about $250. I have a 6410 card which cost $100, but I can't find them on the market anymore. -Matt
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