[plug] Don't do that!

[Xander D Harkness]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

>Xander D Harkness wrote:
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>>PCI - IDE cards are pretty cheap.
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>I disagree; they're relatively low volume items and you can buy a
>complete motherboard for about the same cost as a PCI IDE controller.
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What you miss here is that if you use a different controller for each 
hard drive on basic / cheap mother boards that you are referring to they 
only have two controllers, which means you are limited to RAID 0 or RAID 1.

A more expensive motherboard may have four controllers on but these are 
usually much more expensive and to get a PCI card for about $10 allowing 
RAID 5 and many more disks.

My EPIA board does have a PCI slot and I have a dual riser card in it.

Kind regards
Xander