which board gives the best raid performance?

[johnyC]

I'm into video and music editing and I need a board that gives the best disk performance using ide drives, as i do not have enough to purchase a scsi rig.

I also have a 1 gig 266fsb axia tbird and would like to do some overclocking..So which board will suit me?

I think a kt133a board is the best way to go, and I was pretty positive about buying the iwill kk266-raid until i heard that the onboard raid controller was giving people headaches..is this true? please someone, anyone help a brother out..thanks
-jon

 

[Tachyon]

The HighPoint RAID controller on Abit boards works great with overclocking. That would be my recommendation

 

[supraway]

I would also recommend the IBM Deskstar 75GXP hard drives... they are relatively cheap, extremely fast, and very reliable (for a 7200rpm IDE).

 

[johnyC]

Yah I've also heard deskstars are the best ide drives out there...
i've also heard that people have been having troubles mixing deskstars and highpoint controllers..
Is this still a problem?
if so i think i'll go with some maxtor diamondmax plus 60 udma/100 drives..

 

[Tachyon]

johnyC (Apr 29, 2001 02:33 a.m.):
Yah I've also heard deskstars are the best ide drives out there...
i've also heard that people have been having troubles mixing deskstars and highpoint controllers..
Is this still a problem?
if so i think i'll go with some maxtor diamondmax plus 60 udma/100 drives..

The Deskstar works very well with the HighPoint controller. The only problem I've heard was with the 45GB drive and I don't know if that was related only to the HighPoint. The Maxtor drives work ok but I'd recommend the Deskstar.