Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3161/ 2008-12-04T20:45:54-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3161/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2002-10-19T22:45:47-05:00 Chris Faulkner http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3161/#15090 I agree with this as well, but if you are looking for a cost effective solution, the promise &quot;raid&quot; card is usually the way to go...<br /> <br /> IDE is way cheaper than SCSI minus some performance, but on one hand.. when you are building a server, most people want to know how much it costs more than the performance... text/html 2002-10-19T17:55:47-05:00 Karl Austin http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3161/#0 Hi,<br /> <br /> I have to say that I thought the article was pretty good except for the fact that you used the Promise FastTrack card - If you're building a high performance server you can't take the Promise controller seriously, all but the new SX6000 and SX4000 are nearly 100% software based meaning you'd get the same sort of performance using the software RAID in the Linux Kernel. A far better choice would have been a proper controller from Adaptec (2400A) or 3Ware (One of the 7500 series).<br /> <br /> Thanks,