Re: [OT] SATA Drives?

[Steven Edgar <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 14 July 2003 15:12, Paul Gordon wrote:
> Has anyone started using SATA IDE stuff yet?
>
> I'm wondering if I can use it as a means of installing a number of
drives
> externally to a PC, - primarily a way of getting round the standard
ATA 18"
> cable length limit.
>

I think you'll find you need 8 channels. With SATA you can only put one
device
on a channel, unlike parallel where you could put two. I can highly
recommend
3ware ATA RAID controllers, I have one of their 8 channel parallel IDE
adapters on my Linux server and it works a treat (wish I could say the same
for the hard drives I'm using, not very reliable!)

http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata.asp

I think you'll be wanting the 8506-8

I got my card from

www.tmc-uk.com

but there are other European deallers at

http://www.3ware.com/wheretobuy/europe.asp

I would stay away from Promise, who also do ATA RAID cards, I bought one of
their originally because it was cheaper, but its performance was awful and
it
kept corrupting the array.



Steven