my motherboard only has serial ports so i'm planning to use a pci slot to connect my samsung SH-S182D dvd burner. can i just get any pci card with a parallel port? just any parallel ata cables? do these things have specific names and are there any considerations i should be aware of when choosing them? is this setup likely to slow down drive performance or cause complications? would it just be better to get a serial ide drive? are there any widely used and popular such drives? (preferably cheaper ones like my nec 3550a or the samsung)
this controller is out of stock. what's the difference between the $10-$15 ide cards and the $30-$50 ones. based on the reviews, price seems to be rather independent of quality. are there different features among non-raid cards that i need to know about?
the reviews i've seen don't seem to support this view. i guess you were joking. i thought raid controllers were only for configuring hard drives in raid array. do they all support optical ide devices as well? what's superior about raid cards for my purposes?
Lol, I wasn't joking, I hadn't read any reviews. Also, I should imagine that raid serves no real benefit to you. Just go with a normal one. BTW i don't have one of these, it was a suggestion I had seen in another thread.
