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Originally Posted by 2chesapeakes
What HDD's did you use with the card. My Ocz Vertex are not listed in the interoperability matrix. I would hate to purchase and find out my drives won't work.
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I would be very surprised if they did not work. All storage devices must conform to ATA standard...
Where it might fall down is the card might actually bottleneck the drives. Since the Intel Controller is tied to CPU it can run a much higher total speed than a device that uses a dedicated proseeing unit.
I do not recall the exact speeds, but 800MHz tops out at about 800MBps. The newer 800MHz Controllers are dual core IIRC and can handle a much higher BW as a result. I have not looked into it in over a year though so it is possible that new controllers are out that increase BW at lower speeds as well.
If looking at 6GBps cards I would assume they would be required to have a newer controller otherwise scaling beyond 2 drives would not happen.
$300 would be a starting point for SSD capable RAID cards IME.