I recently got a BP6 with 2 466MHz Celerons, and want to have raid 1 running on the board. Which IDE RAID Controller do you recommend for 2 * 40GB IDE HDD's to be run in raid 1?
I'm probably going to be using Linux on the machine, so if there was one which was available in the UK and Linux compatible that'd be brilliant!
I'm no RAID expert but you should be able to find a good RAID PCI controller from newegg or your favorite Internet shop. The BP6 is going on 6 years of age and you probably won't see great performance using a SATA PCI RAID controller. An ATA/66/100/133 PCI RAID controller from company's like Promise should work fine.
I'd recommend a Promise Fasttrak 66 or 100. See if you can locate a used one. Here's an example.
I got one for about $12 Cdn on Ebay, works great. Recent Linux distros should pick it up just fine on installation. If you need to, there's a guide here on creating a boot floppy for it and installing Linux.
Don't take Adaptec IDE-RAID controllers. The price is high (i960) but the read performance is really weak (with RAID 0 and 128 MB cache).
But I have not tested RAID 1 - maybe then the performance is ok.