Oh, and I almost forgot: the only advantages to builtin IDE RAID is that it's cheap, and it leaves a PCI slot open.
However, it's still tied to an IRQ line shared by one or more of the PCI slots anyway, and it is a software solution, so will use processor resources (to varying degrees...).
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Everything aircooled  (I honestly don't know why you guys let me stay a member...  )
Always folding:
WXP Pro:
KD7R + Palomino 1800+
W2K3:
4x P3 Xeon 500 512KB (4 clients)
Linux boxes:
none  Had to put them to use doing *real* work.
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