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I'm about to get disks for a Raid-0 setup on the A7N8X-DX (on board). Having read most of the threads, it seems that SATA offers no real advantage over PATA at this time on this chipset. So, since I see no decent sales on SATA drives but PATA drives seem to be rebate-cheap, I guess it makes sense to just get two PATA drives and converters?
Currently WD120 Sata is $108, Hitachi is $116. Supposedly Hitachi is better at the moment but only has a one year warranty compared to the WD and Maxtor 3 year. Odd.
Adapters are around $20 though. Plus, they are another possible failure point. On Raid-0 you want to limit that.
One more thing. Given the limits of PCI (on another thread), are two Raptors (36g) on Raid-0 going to be much faster than two 7200 drives? Or does the PCI bus become the limiting factor?
Currently WD120 Sata is $108, Hitachi is $116. Supposedly Hitachi is better at the moment but only has a one year warranty compared to the WD and Maxtor 3 year. Odd.
Adapters are around $20 though. Plus, they are another possible failure point. On Raid-0 you want to limit that.
One more thing. Given the limits of PCI (on another thread), are two Raptors (36g) on Raid-0 going to be much faster than two 7200 drives? Or does the PCI bus become the limiting factor?