- Jul 15, 2001
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Hi, I've been researching this topic on and off for a few days now, and need your advice:
I'd like a RAID 5 Setup to go with my AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU.
I almost bought a Chaintech ZNF 150, but after visiting www.amdmb.com forums, it seemed like a lot of people got bad chaintech boards (seems like their QA isn't very good).
Also, is RAID 5 on mobos worth it? Is it any good?? (3ware RAID cards cost hundreds of dollars for a reason).
Or should I just buy 3 drives, put my OS and /tmp on 2 drives with RAID 0, and my important documents on the third drive. (and just back that up once in a while). Also, I was thinking about buying 3 SATA drives, I am wondering if I should just stick to 3 IDE drives. Because, it's not hard to saturate the PCI bus anyway.
Also, I might be thinking about overclocking, so a board that's OC friendly would be good too..
Anyone here have a Athlon 64 board? What have your (or your friend's) experience been like???
I am thinking about <= $200 for a board....
Thanks a lot in advance for your input.
I'd like a RAID 5 Setup to go with my AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU.
I almost bought a Chaintech ZNF 150, but after visiting www.amdmb.com forums, it seemed like a lot of people got bad chaintech boards (seems like their QA isn't very good).
Also, is RAID 5 on mobos worth it? Is it any good?? (3ware RAID cards cost hundreds of dollars for a reason).
Or should I just buy 3 drives, put my OS and /tmp on 2 drives with RAID 0, and my important documents on the third drive. (and just back that up once in a while). Also, I was thinking about buying 3 SATA drives, I am wondering if I should just stick to 3 IDE drives. Because, it's not hard to saturate the PCI bus anyway.
Also, I might be thinking about overclocking, so a board that's OC friendly would be good too..
Anyone here have a Athlon 64 board? What have your (or your friend's) experience been like???
I am thinking about <= $200 for a board....
Thanks a lot in advance for your input.