I agree with this - the 3ware IDE RAID controllers are really, really
good. Get your hands on one if you want a top-notch RAID with IDE hard
drive prices. Most of the issues people have had with IDE raid have
been addressed.. and with 160GB IDE drives coming in, its possible to
build 1 terabyte RAID for $2k-$3k USD.
> Your example is not very convincing. You want to compare a
> good SCSI controller with a bad IDE one? That's not what one
> would call equitable.
>
> Consider: let's get an antique 50 pin adaptec SCSI
> controller, and compare it to a 3ware escalade running RAID 0
> over 4 drives. The IDE one is faster! It saturates the PCI
> bus! The SCSI controller pokes along at 10 MB/s. Doesn't
> prove anything.
>
> The business about CPU utilization did, in fact, use do be an
> issue, but hasn't been since the introduction of UltraDMA IDE
> controllers, which was a few years ago. (Admittedly, if
> you've been running WinNT 4 all this time, you haven't been
> able to take advantage of it.)
