[OT] Useable BIOS RAID 1 on the cheap?

[Dirk Koopman]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 17:01 +0000, Steve Mynott wrote:

> Is there anyway of doing hardware RAID on the cheap with those SATA disks and
> a suitable motherboard which is actually likely to work that anyone can
> recommend?  A Shuttle-type form factor would be particularly cool.
> 

Most built in SATA disc controllers seem to come with raid 0, 1, 0+1 and
jbod on them already. Certainly on the Nvidia 3 controllers built in on
my nice new 64bit AMD machine (an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum) seems to be
able to raid any of the IDE and SATA discs that I can plugin.

Failing that nearly all of the plugin SATA and IDE cards have the same
Raid on them and they start at about £10 from your favorite suppliers
(eg www.ebuyer.com, www.scan.co.uk etc).

Dirk