Philipp 6 Posted August 23, 2001 PC Hardware has posted a review on the Promise FastTrack100 TX2 IDE RAID controller IDE RAID controllers represent one of the newest additions to a personal box list of gadgets. The IDE RAID controller is regarded right now like a popular choice between the users ready to spend a little bit more in order to increase performance. The storage system performance is a major drawback in a computer overall performance and there are no many things to do. It´s very interesting that SCSI standard is more than 10 years old and was regarded like a solution to IDE problems but it didn´t succeed to gain the market in the same degree as DDR has done in a few months. It´s a big difference between memory and storage standards but it was just an example. One of the major SCSI disadvantages is its high cost. As you may know a quality SCSI harddisk costs more than twice than an IDE harddisk of the same capacity. In most cases you have to pay for speed rather than for features. Read more Share this post Link to post
