i have a hardware raid card... i'm not a bigass
company or anything, but hardware is the only way to
go in windows, and at least for now, i'm sticking with
a dual boot system, and it seems to work just fine....
perhaps at some point when i get rid of win2k
completely i'll give software a try (lets pray i have
dual athalons too at that point)

--- Randy Rathbun <randy@randyrathbun.org> wrote:
> You guys are forgetting something - it's all fine
> and dandy to have
> hardware raid - and in some cases it may be faster -
> but is it $650
> faster?
> 
> If you are dealing with "big ass systems", then go
> with the hardware
> stuff. If you are Joe Schmoe at home, or even at a
> small shop, I seriously
> doubt you are going to be running out to buy a $650
> raid card. I know *I*
> won't be doing that soon! :)
> 
> A good analogy to use in all this is back when
> things like Stacker were
> popular. Drives were damn expensive for anything
> over 200 meg. Stacker
> comes along and for $50 you can double the size of
> your hard drive. Was it
> the best method? Of course not. Did it work? Yep.
> And it worked well for
> what it was. Sure it slowed things down, but who
> cares? 
> 
> The same is true in this entire discussion. Sure, a
> $650 RAID card might
> speed things along, but name me one of us that can
> justify putting a $650
> card in our desktop machine we play games on and
> surf the net and maybe
> write some code. In thoses cases software RAID more
> than fits the
> bill. Heck, I don't even think it would be worth
> buying a $25 RAID card to
> be honest (I have no more slots for one, and no more
> room to mount drives
> for another). 
> -- 
> 
> Randy Rathbun                           
> randy@randyrathbun.org
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> 
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