Question for Doc M....Promise SX4000?

[sundog2k]

Any opinions on this board? Looks like an enhancement to the TX4000???

Thanks!

Mike

[Dr Mordrid]

The SX4000 works great here. It has four master connects, can do PCI/33 or PCI/66 and can do RAID0 or RAID5. Highly recommended.

Things of note: it's 10.5" long so micro cases may be out. You will also need some PC100 or PC133 RAM for its hardware cache. It can take up to 256 megs & the more the merrier. NT/2K/XP only.

Dr. Mordrid

[sundog2k]

I would assume that it has the same controller chip setup as the TX4000 so that it has no issues handling more than 2 HDDs?

Thanks for the info!

[Dr Mordrid]

It has a new controller that gives each drive its own channel so there is no slowdown with >2 HDD's.

It also has hardware XOR in RAID5, which means you get both data redundency and fast writes. Most RAID5's do far slower writes than RAID0.

Dr. Mordrid