Can't the highpoint controller used for most onboard raid be used as a regular ide controller? So, it's really a question of is it worth using it for raid in a desktop?
Aren't we at the point where hdd capacity has surpassed what is needed by the average user? I know people always think that, but honestly how much more bloated can windows get? No matter how big the drive is we can still find ways to fill it, but if you have 100+ gigs of space are you really feeling pressed to upgrade? The smallest drive you can even buy now is 20 gigs, and excluding my machine that is more than the other 3 pcs here combined. The only reason I have more is for video work, otherwise my old 8.4 gig is fine spacewise. But I would upgrade it because it's slow by comparison to a new drive. My point being that faster, quieter, more reliable seem like the best selling points now (side note: this makes the new ibm drives all the more mind boggling). I would love to have a smallish 10k rpm drive for the system and a slower drive for general storage, without having to go the scsi route.
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