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iroc409 · 03-03-2003, 08:40 AM

jroutma,

thanks for the info, that was very helpful!

as far as the card goes, according to some reviews and what i got from their site, the card will rebuild data. it is supposed to be even hot-swappable for failed drives. according to promise, you should be able to just plop in a replacement for the failed drive and forget about it. anyways, that's what they claim.

as far as the processor goes, do you think that the 1700+ @ 2100 would be faster than the 1.83 barton w/ 512k cache? also, would my 2000 OC similarly to a 1700, or what? it looks like i'm at the point that the 2500 barton should fit into the budget, so either one wouldn't really be an issue. i guess with the 1700 i could throw in a 4th hdd.

as far as rebuilding raid 1, i'm not sure, i think so. this card is pretty advanced and gotten some excellent reviews. and the pc133 cache doesn't hurt much, either ;P

oh yeah, when you say "don't even worry about OC" in reference to the barton, why do you come up with this? is the barton a bad overclock, or is the chip really a good bit faster than the rest of them?

03-03-2003, 08:40 AM	#4
iroc409 Cooling Savant Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: midwest side, yo Posts: 596	jroutma, thanks for the info, that was very helpful! as far as the card goes, according to some reviews and what i got from their site, the card will rebuild data. it is supposed to be even hot-swappable for failed drives. according to promise, you should be able to just plop in a replacement for the failed drive and forget about it. anyways, that's what they claim. as far as the processor goes, do you think that the 1700+ @ 2100 would be faster than the 1.83 barton w/ 512k cache? also, would my 2000 OC similarly to a 1700, or what? it looks like i'm at the point that the 2500 barton should fit into the budget, so either one wouldn't really be an issue. i guess with the 1700 i could throw in a 4th hdd. as far as rebuilding raid 1, i'm not sure, i think so. this card is pretty advanced and gotten some excellent reviews. and the pc133 cache doesn't hurt much, either ;P oh yeah, when you say "don't even worry about OC" in reference to the barton, why do you come up with this? is the barton a bad overclock, or is the chip really a good bit faster than the rest of them? __________________ :shrug: