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Kevin Osiowy
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February 5th, 2005 18:00
Should I keep using RAID card?
I used to have Win98 on my Dimension 4500 but I have long since upgraded to XP and then to XP Pro. I installed a RAID controller back in my Win98 days in order to use two 200 gig hard drives in the machine because Win98 didn't support large drives. Since XP does support the big drives natively, is there any reason/advantage to keep using the RAID card? I don't know beans about RAID cards beyond their ability to use the bigger drives with Win98, but I have seen many threads where people are apparently using RAID controllers in XP systems even though they're not using more than the two hard drives and two CD/DVD drives that the on board primary and secondary IDE controllers could easily handle. Is there any reason why I shouldn't yank the RAID card?
Thanks,
Kevin
Kevin Osiowy
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Posted February 5th, 2005 21:00
I've been thinking the same thing ever since I upgraded the OS to XP. Less case clutter, less resources used, better air circulation (until I discover yet another add-on to I just can't live without:smileysurprised:... It's bootup time isn't really an issue though since I upgraded my processor. It goes by so fast that I can barely see it now.Thanks,Kevin
trevmm
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Posted February 5th, 2005 19:00
kevin,
i cannot think of any reason why you need the raid card, as the system supports the drives without it, it would seem a waste of time using something the system does not need, it only means that the system takes a little longer to boot i imagine, i would pull it.
trevmm