Re: RAID 1 with SATA drives

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From: tester (tester_at_testthis.net)
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:29:54 -0700

they only support that raid card, and it is a 6 channel card which is
overkill. Order a 3rd party card and add it in yourself. there are tons
that are supported for SBS.
I've done it to many dell servers w/out issue.

"Stevereno" <steve(remove)@stevereno.net> wrote in message
news:9E6237BC-FB6F-4B8C-9B7B-C00BF1CEFEDD@microsoft.com...
>I am trying to spec out a low cost Dell server, P4 - 2 80gb SATA drives.
> Unfortunately the RAID card added by Dell is over $300 which kind of
> defeats
> the purpose of using SATA drives in a RAID 1 configuration.
>
> The only other option is software based RAID.
>
> What is the performance of software RAID?
>
> Is this really a good option? I have never tried it before.

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