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In case anyone was wondering, AFAIK, LSI have not made any pci-x cards that are compatible with a regular pci slot. The 3080X-R looks to be, however, it is only physically keyed for use in 3.3v pci slots, which I have never even seen, as all pci slots seems to be keyed for 5v. So in practice...

Yes, the quick access times/low latencies should be experienced on any system, no matter how modest the CPU and ram is. That is my MAIN motivation. That and no moving parts/noise, and arguably far superior reliability to scratch disks. I have had multiple scratch disks fail on me. All in...

Thanks for the info. Especially regarding the performance of event the best pci-x controllers. I was going to be build a system around a 7505 board with 133mhz pci-x slot, but now I am glad I did not. Yes, I agree. A modern system with ICH10R or a bootable pci-e slot makes the most sense when...

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?65970-OCZ-Vertex-Turbo-30GB-Problem/page2 In the above thread a chap using a pair of Vertex turbo 30's in raid 0, via an Areca ARC 1110 on a pci 32bit 33Mhzslot, Asus P5E3 board, achieved 110mb/s and 85mb/s seq. read and write speeds, 0.2ms...

I thought 2.2 compliant means it needs to be in a 2.2 slot, and not a 2.1 compliant slot? Of course, the pci-x card needs to be physically keyed to run in a 5 volt pci lost too.

Thanks for that. I do have an Adaptec 1420SA at hand, which I have read will do around 100mb/s via the pci bus with an X25-m. No guess work or risk, or much cost. I could just use that as a sata JBOD controller, grab an X25-v 40gb as cheaply as I can, maybe add 1 or 2 F4 spinpoint 320gb...

A Sil3124-2 based card from ebay will cost me $50 shipped. An Areca 1110, which is PCI 2.2 compliant, will cost just over double that. But at least I will hardware raid, which is a good thing where CPU power is limited to begin with, and I have the option of striping some high performance...

It is for a project that involves the use of a really old main board that only has onboard ATA33. Bandwidth via the pci bus should be somewhere between 100-133mb/s, which I would like to make use of, and benefit from the low latency of an SSD. Since I am running win2k and XP, no trim is...

Ignoring for the moment the fact that ICH10R or a newer pci-e card would result in far superior performance, does someone have any experience with an Areca ARC 1110/1120 controlling a modern SSD, in particular the sandforce based drives? I believe the Intel x25 drives are super compatible, but...