Quote Originally Posted by revenant View Post
Hi - ok, thanks.. from the looks of things I might give F6c a go (thanks Alcibiades for your input on that)...

as for the Areca card... it's a decent card, great vista64 driver support, 256mb ddr2 (so would be great for SSD raid) but my two raptor-x's are only SATA1 so I am not pushing the card very hard I think... I get 160mb/s sustained reads... as a pci-e 1x the best BW I will ever get out of it is 250mb/s or so.. I kind of wonder how well it would do with a pair of fast SATA2 drives on it.. anyways, it's a decent card but not sure how much better it would be than the intel ICH10R.. I like having my OS on an external raid card so I can transplant the system onto a new board quickly if I need to.. it's saved me several times in the past so I just have been in the habit of doing that.
Hi,

Thanks for the info on the Areca card - might give it a try as you pointed out it also gives you extra flexibility by being able to transplant to another board quickly.

Mark