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I already have everything on hand except the non RAID controller and I've found some of the cheap ones that will handle UDMA 5 for about $15. I bought a whole mess of Realtek gigabit cards awhile back at less than $8 each. The controller doesn't have to be bootable and if the UDMA part is...

Thanks that was what I was wanting to know. I wasn't sure how the controller cards worked. Their selling 32 bit cards claiming 600 mb/s but that must be for servers able to quad pump the bus or something. The machine I have is capable of and delivering udma 2 but the hard drive which is a lot...

Hello all, I have an old, old machine that I've been using as an NAS in non RAID for about 8 years now and was wondering if I were to buy a True RAID controller card with it's own processor does this processor offload the work from the main CPU and if it does am I limited by the PCI bus...