I have seen PCI IDE RAID cards before, but I have questions
1) I'm looking for OS X Compatiblity (obviously)
2) Most PCI IDE cards have 2 buses for 4 drives. I want a card that has 4 buses for 4 drives, to overcome IDE's short coming. (Do it the Xserve way)
3) I want all 4 drive to be able to be Stripped together into one giant super drive, I don't want a mirrored RAID.
4) I want it to me IDE133. Obviously I don't need 533 MB/sec of throughput to my drives, but I do want to be able to recognize 160 GB drives. :-D
An alternative to the above card would be a "regular" IDE card, but one that had the same four buses instead of the usual two. Then use SoftRaid (when it comes out in late summer :-() to make my RAID. I suppose I could just use two normal PCI IDE133 cards, but thats two PCI slots, I already have one full, and that would only leave me with one to go. My current plan is actually to buy a SCSI card, 3 SCSI drives and use softRAID. But Apple's use of IDE drives has almost given me a new faith in IDE. That and you get 2 to 3 times the space for your money.
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Hmmm oh yeah I suppose some specs of my machine might be a good idea... its a dual 533, 640 RAM, currently a single 40 GB IDE on the built in bus, 10.0.4 and always going to be running the newest OS available.
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