Low cost RAID solution $17.00

[Richard_Cranium72]

Iwill RAID Controller Ultra DMA/66 IDE PCI RAID Card

The 2 ATA/66 cables are worth the cost alone!
IMHO http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Super IDE RAID 66
Supports PCI bus and Ultra ATA66/33 drives
Supports minimum 2 and maximum 4 drives
Supports RAID Levels:
RAID 0, striping 2 drives
RAID 1, mirroring 2 drives
RAID 0+1, 4 drives only
Supports Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows NT 4.x
Special external connector for external IDE Hard Drive connection
Two ATA66 cables (80 wires / 40-pin) with 3 heads included!
HighPoint HPT368 Chipset

Windows 98/
NT 4.0
Win2000
Red Hat 7.0
Slackware 7.1
Corel Linux Release 2
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SIDERAID66

DrVette

[thekingofpain]

Thanks for the heads UP! Sure cant beat that price, (especially since I had to buy an "emergency" ata66 cable last week and paid $20!!! for it) I like this feature too--Special external connector for external IDE Hard Drive connection-- needless to say, I ordered one...
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[jl123]

I just ordered one of those friday. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

I have a few questions.

I heard from someone that you can't use Maxtor drives on that card. I also heard that you can only use expensive hard drives like the IBMs. Is this true? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

Can i use different sizes of drives?

Indeed this is a sweet price. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

~Joel

[This message has been edited by jl123 (edited 12-03-2000).]

[thekingofpain]

I have IBM and Maxtor drives, ive heard IBM licensed the design to Maxtor and basically the drives are identical, (could be flibbidyfloo also) I have used the Maxblast disk on IBM drives if that means anything {probably not} went back and changed my order to 2 cards---just got a 15g IBM ata100-7200 for 115$ paid 150$ for a 15g Maxtor ata66-7200 3 months ago, what do ya mean expensive IBM hard drives??? :-)

[jl123]

Well I'm a poor 15 year old http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif LOL

Well that's what someone else told me.

~Joel

[drizzle]

No support for Windows Me?

[Krueger81]

I used two Maxtor 20 GB HDD's on it, identical 7200 rpm drives and no go with the sucker. SOl dit on ebay for 35 shipped and bought fo 24 shipped not bad/

Krueger81

[Richard_Cranium72]

Here's a link to the Iwill site.

support info and FAQ for the ATA/66 card.
http://support.iwill.net/raid66.htm

Also , for those who want a faster RAID setup, here's a Iwill ATA 100 for $47.00--&gt;&gt;
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=205-0115

Please Note, these cards DO NOT SUPPORT RAID level 3-4-5 ONLY 1 and 2

DrVette