I got a VP6 running RAID 0 on two 30GB Quantum 7200rpm HDs. Well the performace is there in away :-/. BUT....Software RAID sucks period. The RAID found in the HPT370 and similar chips is all software based which means you need drivers, drivers of course that are only for windoze. I like to use Linux and now I must refrain. For the most performace and the most cash, if you want IDE RAID anyway, is to just get a Adaptec AAA-RAID card with hardware based Caching. That sucker will boost your IDE performace through the roof. And don't worry about the speed difference between ATA66 and 100. ATA100 isn't a real big improvement over 66 as far as substained transfer rates. The only real difference in the two is that ATA100 has provisions for larger data header "cells" (for lack of a better word) for future hardware indevors that are not around today. As far as SCSI goes I would much rather have a single disk Ultra3 160 30GB IBM System then the RAID 0 setup im using to type out this thread. Also, I don't recall anyone letting you know that you need TWO (2) disk to run RAID 0, with the combined 30GB I have I get about 55.9 GBs fresh off the 32K parition.
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