- Joined
- Oct 9, 2003
- Location
- Phoenix. YOUR HAIR IS GOOD TO EAT
Trust me, it isn't as crazy as it sounds. My 200GB hard drive is filling up, and I need more room, it's a SATA, and so is my Raptor, so that's both my SATA channels.
I REFUSE TO BUY ANOTHER IDE DEVICE. So that really leaves me with the obvious choice of getting a SATA card, I would like it to have 4 channels, and I'm pretty sure it will come to that, but I suppose two would suffice.
Now, I'm not the avid performance fiend that some of you all are. I enjoy my 2500+, 1GB of ram, 9700pro, and RAPTOR, and always like more performance, but a 5% increase in speed in one aspect is not something that I desperately need, nor is it something I am willing to spend large sums of money on.
Now I was looking at SATA cards at zzf.
A lot of them were from companies I have never heard of before. Kingwin? LSI? Highpoint? I know Promise, but that's about it.
The cards range from $30, to $330. The high end ones seem very fancy though. I wouldn't need anything more than the SATA ports and possibly a RAID1 option.
Now I am an extreme minimalist, and I hate adding extra stuff in to my computer unless absolutely necessary. This includes hardware, especially expansion cards.
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=130455
Now I see this card, it's $75,
Then I see this motherboard, and it's only $40 more.
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=246458
I don't need a new motherboard, but this supports RAID 1, and the card didn't.
I'm really just lost and confused, suggest stuff to me please.
I REFUSE TO BUY ANOTHER IDE DEVICE. So that really leaves me with the obvious choice of getting a SATA card, I would like it to have 4 channels, and I'm pretty sure it will come to that, but I suppose two would suffice.
Now, I'm not the avid performance fiend that some of you all are. I enjoy my 2500+, 1GB of ram, 9700pro, and RAPTOR, and always like more performance, but a 5% increase in speed in one aspect is not something that I desperately need, nor is it something I am willing to spend large sums of money on.
Now I was looking at SATA cards at zzf.
A lot of them were from companies I have never heard of before. Kingwin? LSI? Highpoint? I know Promise, but that's about it.
The cards range from $30, to $330. The high end ones seem very fancy though. I wouldn't need anything more than the SATA ports and possibly a RAID1 option.
Now I am an extreme minimalist, and I hate adding extra stuff in to my computer unless absolutely necessary. This includes hardware, especially expansion cards.
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=130455
Now I see this card, it's $75,
Then I see this motherboard, and it's only $40 more.
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=246458
I don't need a new motherboard, but this supports RAID 1, and the card didn't.
I'm really just lost and confused, suggest stuff to me please.