Asus P4C800E Deluxe with SATA drives and RAID 0

[Alan Guest]

Can anyone help me?

I have two WD 36 GB Raptors that I want to set up as RAID 0. My motherboard
has two RAID controllers. One is the Intel ICH5R and the other is the
Promise PDC20378. Which is the prefered one to use? Any help or suggestion
would be most welcome.

Many thanks Alan

 

[Paul]

Can anyone help me?

I have two WD 36 GB Raptors that I want to set up as RAID 0. My motherboard
has two RAID controllers. One is the Intel ICH5R and the other is the
Promise PDC20378. Which is the prefered one to use? Any help or suggestion
would be most welcome.

Many thanks Alan

The ICH5R has a 266MB/sec path to the system memory. The Promise
controller is limited by the PCI bus to 133MB/sec (of which about
100-110MB/sec practical bandwidth is available). Try the ICH5R.

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showpost.php?p=595566

Paul

 

[Alan Guest]

Thanks for the info Paul.

Alan

The ICH5R has a 266MB/sec path to the system memory. The Promise
controller is limited by the PCI bus to 133MB/sec (of which about
100-110MB/sec practical bandwidth is available). Try the ICH5R.

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showpost.php?p=595566

Paul

 

[Michael S.]

Alan--I am using RAID 0 with paired Raptors also with that same motherboard.
Suggest that you disable the Promise controller and use the ICH5R Intel
Controller which is faster. I have two optical drives, two SATA drives and
an P-ATA HDD connected to the Intel Controller and no need for the Promise.
It may be that the Promise Controller works through a PCI channel which
slightly slows throughput down.

MikeSp

 

[Alan Guest]

Thanks for the info Mike.

Alan

Alan--I am using RAID 0 with paired Raptors also with that same
motherboard. Suggest that you disable the Promise controller and use the
ICH5R Intel Controller which is faster. I have two optical drives, two
SATA drives and an P-ATA HDD connected to the Intel Controller and no need
for the Promise. It may be that the Promise Controller works through a PCI
channel which slightly slows throughput down.

MikeSp

 

[Jada]

I'm about to setup of of these boards. Any problems with IAA and your
optical drives? I've heard some people have had problems burning disc
and the cure was to get rid of IAA.

Thanks

 

[Michael S.]

Perhaps it was luck--but no problems of any kind with this motherboard and
the optical drives (BTW, I am using a Plexwriter Premium CD burner and a
Plextor PX-712A DVD burner on the secondary IDE channel and they both work
great with Nero). Thus no problem with IAA and the optical drives.

The only issue I have had with this computer build is some compatibility
issues between Norton Systemworks and the Audigy 2ZS sound card--I had to
disable a couple of functions of the sound card since neither Symantec nor
Soundblaster would own up to the issue although they admitted that it
existed--they just pointed fingers at each other.

MikeSp
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[Fisshead]

Perhaps it was luck--but no problems of any kind with this motherboard and
the optical drives (BTW, I am using a Plexwriter Premium CD burner and a
Plextor PX-712A DVD burner on the secondary IDE channel and they both work
great with Nero). Thus no problem with IAA and the optical drives.

The only issue I have had with this computer build is some compatibility
issues between Norton Systemworks and the Audigy 2ZS sound card--I had to
disable a couple of functions of the sound card since neither Symantec nor
Soundblaster would own up to the issue although they admitted that it
existed--they just pointed fingers at each other.

What were the incompatabilities you mentioned? I have the audigy2 zs and
norton Sytemworks also.