ATA/100 PCI RAID Controller Card Only $27.00

[DoPeY5007]

Click the pic

http://www.compgeeks.com/images/300x300/CCD-PCIATA100-unit.jpg (http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=pciata100)


You want an IDE RAID... You NEED an IDE RAID... You can't have an IDE RAID without the proper controller... NOW WE HAVE IT, AND AT A SUPER GEEKY PRICE!!! This controller card can combine the capacity of 2 ~4 HDDs into 1 logical drive! This controller provdes two IDE channels that support Ultra ATA/100 RAID. Each IDE connector supports a master/slave combination of any IDE Hard Drive up to 128GB, including IDE, EIDE and Ultra-ATA standards. Very Cool & Very Geeky!!!


Features/Specifications
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Ultra ATA/100 Compatible
32-bit PCI Interface
Supports bus master DMA at 133Mbytes/sec PCI burst rate
Supports Max. IDE/ATA data transfer rate of 100 MB/sec
Two Ultra ATA Channels w/ 128 Bytes buffer per Channel
Supports up to four IDE/ATA Devices
Fully backwards compatible with Ultra ATA/66, Ultra ATA/33, -
- EIDE/Fast ATA-2, IDE and ATAPI devices
You can still use your Motherboard IDE Controllers when this card is installed!
Silicon Image Sil0649CL160 Chipset
Includes: PCI Card, Two EIDE/100 Cables, Driver on Floppy & Manual

Supports Hard Drive capacities up to 128GB

Product Requirements
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Supports Windows 95/98/Me/2000*, Win NT4.0
UDMA/100 Drive (Matching drives needed for RAID)
Available PCI Slot
Floppy Disk Drive
* NOTE: On Windows 2000, you need an existing drive on the system with
- Windows 2000 already installed

[xsiled2]

how bout a link... dope

ah pic is link nm :D

thx dope

[waterp7]

:( Argh!!...out of stock

[gunn]

I was trying to figure out how a company could sell a product that does ATA RAID for such a low price point and here's somethig

THIS IS A SOFTWARE RAID SOLUTION. This means that all processing to duplicate packets (stripe the data on both the drives, split up a read request to get it from both drives, etc.) is all done in the software -- i.e.: your main CPU instead of a little processor on the board. Back in the day, NT (from version 3.51 and on) supported software RAID with your IDE drives. The downside was it consumed ~10% of your processor resources just to make this work. I'm not sure how much more efficient this solution can be but I don't think much progress could be made in this dept. I do believe there are solutions that do hardware RAID mirroring/striping in the just under $100 price point.

* Silicon Image Sil0649CL160 Chipset

From the chipset maker's web page:

http://www.siimage.com/products/medley.asp
"Silicon Image's Medley™ provides ATA Software RAID including Striping, Mirroring and Mirrored-Striping to enhance the industry leading performance and reliability of Silicon Image's proven PCI-to-ATA host controller products"

Hell, for $27 bucks though, go for it -- but I just thought you guys might like to know this.

[DoPeY5007]

Originally posted by gunn
I was trying to figure out how a company could sell a product that does ATA RAID for such a low price well I only paid $43 for my HighPoint iWill ATA/100 RAID card.......



So I figured they just dropped in price

[Calequendi]

well.. i've used a generic raid controller before.. made by CMD tech... then i got fed up with it and switched to a Promise Fastrack tx2 raid card... about 50 dollars more.. but there was a nice performance increase... but.. they advertise 200 megabits a sec.. but your PCI bus in actuality can only handle 133... unless you're lucky enough to have a 64 bit pci bus [and majority of people don't..] so basically.. a Shuttle AK31 motherboard.. 90 dollars w/ shipping.. Promise Fastrack Raid card.. 80 w/ shipping... total is 170 dollars... and the performance never goes to its potential.. whereas if you bought a built in raid card into the motherboard, i *think* there are much less retraints... and they go for ..even 110-120+ ?

[Calequendi]

haha, by the way.. and IDE RAID does rule :)... even if sisoft claims that my single 40 is "faster" than my dual-40's on raid.... you can really notice a nice improvement in speeds.. plus seek time of 6 ms

[gringott]

RAID rox