Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

> I'm debating using SCSI drives vs. buying a hardware RAID and using
> cheaper IDE drives.  I have fast/wide PCI slots available, so I'd prefer
> a fast-wide hardware IDE raid card, but performance is really 
> secondary to data integrity and low-cost (it's not a perfect world, 
> after all!).

I had the same quandry last week, I have a server dishing out remote x 
connections, and had 30 clients conntected.  With the ide drives the x 
server came to a halt.  I looked at scsi and ide raid, after lots of 
reading, and looking at the budget, I settled with an ide raid 
controller from 3ware.

Its a  4 channel, hardware raid controller (more than just doing the xor 
on card, like promise etc..), used 4 drives in raid 10, so I got 
performance and security and a cost of drive space.  I know how 30 
connected clients, and server is working just fine.