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Squishyface · 02-16-2001, 11:23 AM

Heh...i just ordered an Iwill kk266 board....screw the ddr and screw the raid.
ddr...unproven...but faster..a.nd more expensive...i own sdram...good stuff...and don't need the added cost of ddr.
as for raid....according to my friend who use scsi....it simply rocks and cannot be beat...but with ide...its different.
The way i understand it is this:
each ide drive ata66 or 100 can deliver data at 40MB/s max. With raid...this number doesn't change. If you have two drives on two separate ide cables...you would think you could get the delivery up to 80MB/sec..but with ide, the cpu can only recieve one piece of data at a time...which drops you back down to 40MB/sec. I think. Someone please correct me if i'm wrong, but the benefits of ide raid are not that great as far as striping goes....might be fine for mirroring

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02-16-2001, 11:23 AM	#4
Squishyface Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: columbus, Ohio, USA Posts: 54	Heh...i just ordered an Iwill kk266 board....screw the ddr and screw the raid. ddr...unproven...but faster..a.nd more expensive...i own sdram...good stuff...and don't need the added cost of ddr. as for raid....according to my friend who use scsi....it simply rocks and cannot be beat...but with ide...its different. The way i understand it is this: each ide drive ata66 or 100 can deliver data at 40MB/s max. With raid...this number doesn't change. If you have two drives on two separate ide cables...you would think you could get the delivery up to 80MB/sec..but with ide, the cpu can only recieve one piece of data at a time...which drops you back down to 40MB/sec. I think. Someone please correct me if i'm wrong, but the benefits of ide raid are not that great as far as striping goes....might be fine for mirroring ------------------ 1.2Tbird @1456 with winter air cooling...yeah baby!