Wow, my first post. Where to start, SO many questions.<br><br>Let's begin with my IT hopes and dreams:<br><br>I am an (amateur) hardware geek and have been trying to work out the "best" setup for me ...

I know the technical background, 4 primaries (in my case) should give better performance than 2 drives on each channel.<BR><BR>I wondered if win2k/xp is fine with a pci based ide controller, is there ...

Continuing our coverage of working around the 8 GB installation limit, some MacFixIt readers have suggested using an internal PCI IDE/ATA controller to connect their built-in drive, bypassing the ...

The IDE JBOD (just a bunch of disks)/RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) PCIe (PCI Express) controller adds an extra channel, RAID capability, and JBOD capability to any desktop system, and ...