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Squeezing 160G on to ATA Motherboards
MadCow-ard asks: "With the introduction of the new 160 GB hard drives there comes a problem: they only appear to work with the ATA/ATAPI-6, 48 bit-standard. This means not installing them into systems that I have already built with the de facto 28 bit ATA controllers. I build video editing systems that easily reach 800 Mb, and so the Promise solution with a 2 hard drive ATA controller card doesn't really help. Is there a way squeeze these onto my systems without dropping everything above 137.4 Gb?" 160 gigs on a single HD! How soon before terabyte drives become a reality?
I just bought the 6800 for my FreeBSD box; I'm gonna shove about a half-dozen 100 gig drives in it so I can archive all my live concert recordings in SHN format. The cool thing about these cards is each drive gets its own dedicated controller and they're *real* RAID, none of this fake-ass Promise half-software stuff. I won't have to bother with vinum either.
The question I have for the original poster is: why bother with 160 gig drives when 100s are cheaper, and a bunch of them (or even a few striped pairs) will be a lot faster than a few, much-more-expensive 160 gig drives?
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