[Gllug] Computer shopping

[Martin A. Brooks]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 13:11, Jack Bertram wrote:
> Quite.  High-end IDE RAID controllers have 4 or 8 IDE channels to the
> hard disks and often present a SCSI interface to the PCI bus.  All the
> processing is done on-board the RAID controller and doesn't affect the
> CPU at all.
> 
> However, you have to look quite hard to find one, since the industry
> tends to equate SCSI with high-end and IDE with low-end.

*nods*, which is a shame, because 3ware (E)IDE/(S)ATA RAID controllers
are superb bits of kit.

-- 
Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/


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