Posted by Electronic Punk
My understanding of raid was that you had to have two identical drives that act as one drive (no sure whether it is the combined size or the same asize) and because the data is being pulled from two different IDE channels then it is twice as fast.
An expensive but worthwhile feature! Well at least, thats what I could come up with, never really read up on it as my mobo doesn't have that feature and I have no plans on buying a second HDD at this time (other upgrades to dream about)
Am I right? Or am I way off
RAID controller is not that expensive per say...
can be if you get a fancy shmancy one
lol
its worthwile to have if you are going to have a lot of IDE devices or even if you plan to have a lot of atapi devices coz then you can just move the ide drives to the RAID controller...
you can either have everything running as separate drives or MIRROR the drive so that you have backup... personally I do not have RAID but I do setup frequent restore points and all my important docs are on the 2 drives I have...
for mubbers
sorry m8.. didn't mean to sound over bearing in my last post on this thread on the 4600 v/s the 9700pro..
when the 4600 first came out on the market it commanded the same premium price as the 9700pro does now.. and the 4600 is a nice card... BUT my thing is the lad is setting up a new rig... and with something that is dx9 compliant he is more future proof...
personally if you are looking to save money I would either wait for a lower clocked iteration of the nv30 card from nvidia or get a 9xxx series card from radeon...
am not going by spec sheets either
though I do post em a bit lol... I build computers at work and work on em quite a bit... am talking from personal experience...
again the 4600's are NOT BAD.. I just don't think it is worth getting the gf4 ti series when you have similar priced cards coming on the market with future software/technology compliance...
end mubbers section
btw nice points out there by him and zedric... read up other related posts as well concerning how different parts of hardware work..
concerning RAM... I would advise you to either buy a week ago or wait for the prices to drop back..
samsung and co have pushed prices up a touch..
ddr2700 512mb costs around 120-130 bucks... for a namebrand certified clip...