Highpoint or Promise for RAID 0?

RustynutsRustynuts
edited March 2004 in Hardware
Who's better for a basic 2-channel IDE RAID? ANy others at decent price?.

Comments

  • KingFishKingFish
    edited March 2004
    I've used both highpoint and promise built in raid controllers and have had no problems with either.

    KingFish
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    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_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    I have had significantly better results with Highpoint, especially when it comes to the onboard.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    Never ran a Promise controller myself, but ran two different Highpoints, and never had any trouble.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    I have use Highpoint 370/372/374 all Raid-0 and never a problem. Highly recommended.
  • RustynutsRustynuts
    edited March 2004
    Okay then, is it really necesary to go to RocketRaid133 over a 100? $71 vs $46
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited March 2004
    No not really.

    Tex
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    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?!).
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