raid setups
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They are one and the same, the scsi controller hsa another chip onboard that backs up on the other scsi drive(well it does on mine).
You can as well get away with scsi using just a controller card, what I mean buy this is that you could get your os to the work. But you can't run XP from the raided drives, when it is totally software driven.
IDE is where it becomes a pain, not that it is or anything, its just not as fast, plus more expensive to get a hardware raid[cheaper than scsi though!].
You will find that most [£100+]motherboards that are new come with two/four extra IDE ports, these are for raid, they have a controller chip, but the operating system has to do some of the donkey work. I currently am using this type of setup for my dads server. Its been up and running for ages now with out a problem. This is set up as 1+0, like I said before you do notice a bigger hit on the os when its trying to write to the four drives, but its not performance we are looking for.
You could get a lacie raid thingy going, but thats a bit over kill..
Best bet, is to go with adaptec, promise or high point- do a search in google- these are the well know and most reliable ones.
Do remeber serial ATA is here and they are fast, and can be raid'ed, but the drives are not yet in the public market, but are equally match and better than scsi models.