[Gllug] re: software vs hardware RAID

[Rich Walker]

Mike Brodbelt <mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk> writes:


> Yes, although the selection doesn't need to be that careful. Basically
> if the card costs less than about 200 quid it's useless :-). Cards in
> the 200ukp - 1000ukp range are better.... 

For that price, you can get case+mobo+ram+IDE controller+cpu+a lot of drives. (which is
what we did last time). Certainly a f' of a lot better than splashing
out on a serious fibre-channel enclosure and FC-AL drives... (which we did
another time - if anyone wants such an enclosure, contact me off-list -
one previous owner, light usage on Apple Macs, £2500 when new, can
supply some drives and PCI FC cards, serious offers...)

cheers, Rich.

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