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David Floyd wrote:
>I thought I heard someone talking the other day about Raid0 for IDE 
>drives. What is this all about, is it true? Can anyone point me toward 
>info, and cost of this system?
>
>thanks,
>df

There is a review of the new Adaptec 2400A ATA Raid adaptor on 
www.storagereview.com

They compare it with a 3ware product which is a little cheaper and some of
the cheap Promise/Abit products.

The Adaptec and 3ware are higher end products $300 US -- but have fast
processors onboard so as to reduce CPU loading compared to the cheaper
models. They achieve over 100 MB per second sustained transfer in the tests
with 4 ATA drives which is the most they can use. 

This sort of performance is overkill for audio (I would have thought) but
very handy for Digital Video editing and database applications.

Regards,
Murray