I got this card along with 4 Maxtor 20 gig 7200 RPM drives, and 256 MB DIMM for cache. Before installing into small file server, tested it out to see what the raid 0 performance would be across these 4 drives. I was amazed that it seemed actually slower than my regular 15K SCSI drive. Not quite the performance I was expecting. It does do well with large writes, just access times seem like a regular 5400 RPM IDE drive. The card was like $175, and does RAID 0, 1, and 5. Can also do 0+1. The PAM utility (Promise Array Monitor) isn't quite intuitive, but gets the job done. It's a good card for simple reliability - just not as fast as one would think...
I would like to use linux - I just don't think it's ready for primetime yet. Right now, it lacks the speed, and simplicity of windows. If there were a distro that was heavily trimmed, easy to install, and had fast performance - I'd switch. I know it's possible to do, I just can't spend hours trying to learn how. Not everyone is a poweruser, some just want something simple.
...have been doing this for a long time. Here is a site that lists a few running Newton Message Pad web servers..
http://misato.chuma.org:2110/
I didn't get to see the IPaq's page, but the Newton's pages listed here are pretty remarkable.
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I got this card along with 4 Maxtor 20 gig 7200 RPM drives, and 256 MB DIMM for cache. Before installing into small file server, tested it out to see what the raid 0 performance would be across these 4 drives. I was amazed that it seemed actually slower than my regular 15K SCSI drive. Not quite the performance I was expecting. It does do well with large writes, just access times seem like a regular 5400 RPM IDE drive. The card was like $175, and does RAID 0, 1, and 5. Can also do 0+1. The PAM utility (Promise Array Monitor) isn't quite intuitive, but gets the job done. It's a good card for simple reliability - just not as fast as one would think...
I would like to use linux - I just don't think it's ready for primetime yet. Right now, it lacks the speed, and simplicity of windows. If there were a distro that was heavily trimmed, easy to install, and had fast performance - I'd switch. I know it's possible to do, I just can't spend hours trying to learn how. Not everyone is a poweruser, some just want something simple.
Lemme guess - you've never had to ask someone for advice or help?
...have been doing this for a long time. Here is a site that lists a few running Newton Message Pad web servers.. http://misato.chuma.org:2110/ I didn't get to see the IPaq's page, but the Newton's pages listed here are pretty remarkable.