Abit Hot Rod 100 Pro

Raid is a wonderful idea, write data across several drives at the same time, to either increase speed or security. RAID 0 (Striping) spreads the data across 2 drives, making accessing files faster. RAID 1 (Mirroring) writes the data to BOTH drives at the same time, so if a drive fails you have a backup. RAID 0+1 does both, so you have speed and reliability, but you need 4 drives. This card ONLY supports these modes, it does not support RAID 5. It also only has an IDE interface, running at 100mbits/s. No 133mbit support. This device is pretty easy to setup, but you must have the driver on a floppy disk when you load ...

« RAID « Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, that's what RAID stands for. RAID is a technology that adds flexibility and power to the humble hard disk. It's been around for years in big powerful server computers in the form of rather expensive SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) setups. However, over the last year RAID has been gaining popularity in desktop (Or in my case, deskunder) computers using the cheaper and more common EIDE (Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics) drives. They first cropped up on add in cards like the Abit HotRod 100 but now can commonly be found on motherboards. So what can RAID actually do? Well, there are many flavours ...