Doug White:
> I need to get a new desktop machine, and I'm planning on getting a card
> to support RAID mirroring in case of a disk crash. My wife has a 6 month
> old Dell that she bought with some brand of card & 2 drives, but Dell
> didn't install the card. We discovered that the first thing the card
> wants to do is reformat your primary drive, which is absurd. We sent it
> back and got a card from Promise. It took a few tech support calls to
> get it installed & working properly. Even now, it wants to go to the
> setup menu every time you boot.
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a good RAID card? I'd like to get
> one that is reliable, and won't trash the primary (or remaining good)
> drive if something crashes. I've read too many horror stories of RAID
> systems that do stuff like reformatting the good drive when a bad drive
> is replaced & other such nonsense.
> I'll be using this with XP Pro, so Vista isn't an issue.
For a desktop/home machine you could also consider using the built in
software RAID capabilities of XP. You can definitely build a RAID
starting from an existing disk with data on it and there won't be any
noticable difference in performance.
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Joerg Lenneis
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