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Originally Posted by tcruse
The Intel RAID controller on the motherboard does not perform very well on any raid level.
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It still performs better than a single drive, while providing some degree of fault tolerance. That's all I need and that's all I care to pay for.
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Also, you need to buy drives tat are certified for raid use, (at least 7300 rpm and lot f memory buffer n drive) otherwise soft errors will cause you to always be in recovery mode.
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Seagate Barracuda, 7200RPM, 64MB cache, $150. Haven't seen any warnings yet, the RAID stays in one piece. We'll see how it goes.
One thing to note: you absolutely need good cooling when you stack several hard drives in one case. I have a fan on each drive; without the fans running the temperature jumps up from 35C to 50C.
