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Rustynuts
18 Mar 2004, 2:54am
Who's better for a basic 2-channel IDE RAID? ANy others at decent price?.
KingFish
18 Mar 2004, 2:56am
I've used both highpoint and promise built in raid controllers and have had no problems with either.

KingFish
Geeky1
18 Mar 2004, 2:57am
I've always been told that HighPoint is better. I have a RocketRaid 1540 that I've been happy with. It's fast (100MB/s reading & writing with 4 Maxtor Dmax 9 ATA-133 160GB/8MB drives on SATA converters in 2, 2-drive RAID 0 arrays), and it hasn't had any reliability issues...
Mt_Goat
18 Mar 2004, 3:08am
I have had significantly better results with Highpoint, especially when it comes to the onboard.
Spinner
18 Mar 2004, 3:24am
Never ran a Promise controller myself, but ran two different Highpoints, and never had any trouble.
fatcat
18 Mar 2004, 3:28am
I have use Highpoint 370/372/374 all Raid-0 and never a problem. Highly recommended.
Rustynuts
18 Mar 2004, 3:32pm
Okay then, is it really necesary to go to RocketRaid133 over a 100? $71 vs $46
Tex
18 Mar 2004, 4:02pm
No not really.

Tex
Shorty
18 Mar 2004, 4:04pm
No need at all :)

The difference between the ATA100 & ATA133 specs are so marginal in both consistency and performance, in the real world.. you will never notice the difference.

Another vote for Highpoint here btw, because unlike promise based cards.. you can have a wide choice of stripe sizes. Promise PCI cards have always had terrible selections (64k+ and up?!).