Meantime the desktop storage industry has been increasingly active for the last couple of years in promoting another tendency of raising storage capacity and performance (with the platter density growth slowed down, hard disk performance growth has also slowed down – linear writing speed is not growing either). I mean "consumer" RAID. Thanks to the efforts of some "storage brands" (Adaptec is not the last among them), the simplest RAID 0 and 1 controllers (and sometimes even 10) have appeared even in cheap PCI-controllers and motherboard chipsets. And while such controllers were still unusual for most users in 2003, in 2004 it was nonsense not to have ATA RAID on your motherboard or system chipset.



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