<< Hey moron, before you start trying to flame me and act like you actually have a brain cell... the only difference between ATA100 & ATA133 is the allowed hdd size difference. >>
Nice one, brilliant personal attack, now Einstein, perhaps you show me where I stated that ATA133 is faster than ATA100. Nowhere pal, infact, I have stated many times on this forum that ATA133 was developed to to use 48-bit addressing that will enable HD larger than 128GB.
<< but if you think spending extra cash on a desktop for RAID 0 is going to be useful... well... you're wrong again >>
Well, thats your opinion. For my purpose, as I explained in my post. The extra performance RAID 0 gives me for video capture, is well worth the money. I don't drop frames now even at the highest Resolutions, even on the inside tracks of the Platters. These Maxtors are fast and cheap, I got my RAID card used which I will sell when I get my IWILL MB, the RAID costs, what $9 extra? Why pay more for SCSI when my cheap IDE does what I want?
<< One last thing, you might want to try moving away from FIC if you're going to start wanting performance. Your IDE bus speeds may be slow because 1, VIA is crap, and 2, FIC is crap. You want to brag about setups? Maybe you'd like to play with my dual 1Ghz P3 with 7 SCSI drives in a RAID 5 array. You want to brag about storage space, go search my thread labeled "Holy crap, ever formatted 300Gigs?" >>
Are you even reading these posts? I clearly state that "I ordered my XP333R tonight, so I'll let you know in a week how they work on the HP controller." You know, in my first post where I'm answering the poster's question with MY personal experience with the same drives in my RAID setup.
<< You want to brag about setups? >>
Actually, I just wanted to post a response to the original poster's question. I could give a Rat's A$$ what kind of a rig you use.