440Bx chipset and AMI Raid card

[Santilli]

Hi
I've figured out the cards work, and don't need a dedicated slot.

They have a really nice annoying alarm, to let you know if the drives have failed.

They are LVD, and, I'm wondering if using these with a 440 BX chipset is somehow chipset limited? In other words, are the 440 BX chipseted motherboards capable of 75 MB sec data transfer rates?

Thanks

gs

 

[Santilli]

Do you think 40 bucks is a fair price for this card, with 16

mb of ram???

gs

 

[P5-133XL]

The BX chipset will easily maintain 75MB/s over a PCI bus

 

[Platform]

Re: Do you think 40 bucks is a fair price for this card, wit

mb of ram???

If you're just running a simple RAID-0 or RAID-1 array, all you need is a 2MB or at most 4 MB DIMM.

RAID-3 and RAID-5 operates more efficiently during heavy workloads with more RAM; 16MB, 32MB, 64MB and the most common DIMMs supplied with conrollers setup for RAID-3 or RAID-5.

 

[James]

Gary, let me introduce you to Greg's habit of putting half his post in the subject field. Annoying, isn't it?

Greg, I have no basis to estimate 2nd hand pricing for those cards in the US, but on a pure bang-for-buck estimate it looks pretty fair.