I've got a FastTrak 66 which used to be a Ultra 66. It's okay but there is a longish pause at the beginning when scans the array for some reason. Striping does increase the speed quite a bit. I've got two 40GB IBMs (which haven't died yet...) as a striped array to store DV footage.

The Windows GUI gives you basic information on what is attached to what channel and if it's okay or not. There is an old binary only driver and a newer one in the Linux kernel as well if you want to run it under Linux.

If you want to save money then you could turn on software mirroring in XP... Don't know if this would work for your particular situation though.

- Trevor