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Originally Posted by Phoenix32
Remember people, in any striped RAID arrays (0, 5, 6, etc), timing is everything. While they may work, it is risky because the SATA/IDE interface adds in yet one more place to get timings a little off. For RAID 1, it should not be an issue, but in RAID 0 or the more common RAID 5 (in 4 drive units), this could easily turn into a nightmare that could strike at any time (early, or down the road when you least expect it).
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This probably won't be much of a problem. The reason for this is that controller is actually on the drives.. and as such, it is a synchronous process. The processor will need to wait for the controller to respond regardless. The addition of a bit of delay will slow things down a tad, but, I doubt that it will be very noticeable with the Intel NetBurst processors and GigaEther...
BTW ... thanks all for letting me know. If no one had tried it, I was going to do it when my cash crunch alleviated...