On Wed, 08 August 2001, Nick Estes wrote:
> My vote is definatly hardware raid with the IDE drives rather than
> software raid with scsi, you'll get more space for your dollar, hardware
> raid works a lot smoother with no software configs to worry about, and
> raid 1 will help the performance of the IDE drives (mainly on reads).

Fry's has a beautiful Epox motherboard for Athlon, $140 off the shelf, that's as pretty as I've ever seen (more heatsinks than I've ever seen on a mobo, and even has POST code LED's built in).  And it has hardware IDE raid0 & raid1 built in.