PCInsight.com heeft een review gepost van de Iwill SIDE RAID66 met HighPoint HPT370 controller. Evenals de FastTrak van Promise beheerst deze IDE RAID controller de RAID levels 0 (striping) en 1 (mirroring). Volgens de reviewer heeft striping met twee IDE schijven een merkbaar snelheidsverschil tot gevolg:
Using the SIDE-RAID66 card under normal every day use, I noticed that even the mundane of tasks became a bit more responsive. Loading large applications such as Adobe Premiere seemed to execute much faster than under RAID 0 than my regular single drive setup. At an MSRP of $99, you surely get your money's worth. Even if you are looking for just an ATA/66 controller card for your BX platform, this wouldn't be a bad option at all. With data redundancy and high speed RAID 0 and RAID 0/1 support the SIDE-RAID66 certainly delivers what it had promised. Now that RAID is available for IDE drives at a cost-effective price, I certainly foresee the demand for such cards growing at a very high rate.
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