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XFX Revo64 Serial ATA RAID Card Review
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Posted by Donster on: 2005-11-10 15:37:40 948
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By Geoff Gasior @ The Tech Report
The market may be brimming with multi-drive goodness, but that doesn't mean that there isn't room for something new. You see, most affordable RAID solutions, be they add-in cards or motherboard implementations, are software-based solutions and lack dedicated onboard memory. Most stick to supporting a mix of RAID levels 0, 1, 10/0+1, and 5, as well. We haven't seen much in the way of RAID 3 or hardware acceleration, and that's where XFX's new Revo64 comes in. Based on technology from Netcell, the Revo64 combines byte-level striping with hardware-accelerated parity calculations and onboard memory to provide a potentially potent mix of performance and fault tolerance with as few as three hard drives. What's more, the Revo works its magic without requiring drivers, giving the card instant compatibility with newer versions of both Windows and Linux.
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