Christian Jackson

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since November 19, 1999

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November 19, 1999, on Producing Streaming Video (and Audio) for the Web:
You folks may want to check out the FastTrack66 UltraATA66 RAID controller from Promise Technologies (http://www.promise.com). I have not yet tested it with my video capture but for data storage it has worked wonderfully. It offers RAID 0,1 and 0+1 in a bus mastering PCI card for about $120 to $150. It allows a custom block size for each volume and the manufacturer recommends 64KB blocks for video. They claim a burst transfer rate 66MB/sec... It is compatible with Win95, 98 and NT and Linux and doesn't conflict with onboard IDE controllers. Windows NT sees the board as a SCSI controller. I have yet to test the card in a DV capture scenario but in typical file transfers it seems to perform as expected and installation was a snap. I'm tired of paying too much for SCSI drives and SCSI RAID controllers and most onboard IDE controllers do not support large ATA66 drives without installing block mapping software. Additionally, Win95 and Win98 do not offer software RAID so even ...