P4C800E-DLX: Promise378 vs intel ICH5R

[Sid LABDI]

Hi,

I have recently swiched my 2x80GB (wester digital 80JB) Raid0 from
promise to the intel ICH5R interface on my P4C800-E deluxe, bios 1017.002. I
was very surprised to see how much benchmarking results have fall down .
Here are some data:

Promise 378: HD Tune gives: average 98.5MB/s access time 13.5 Burst rate
1060MB/s! CPU 12.6%
Intel ICH5R: Average 25.7MB/s Burst 27.6, CPU 2.4%

Does anyone have an explaination ? In both cases I have used the last
drivers/utilities. Am I missing some tweaking in the bios?

Also with intel Raid I have big problems when recovering from S3 standby
mode. With promise 378 I had no problem.

Thanks for giving a response

Sid

 

[Ender]

Hi,

I have recently swiched my 2x80GB (wester digital 80JB) Raid0 from
promise to the intel ICH5R interface on my P4C800-E deluxe, bios 1017.002. I
was very surprised to see how much benchmarking results have fall down .
Here are some data:

Promise 378: HD Tune gives: average 98.5MB/s access time 13.5 Burst rate
1060MB/s! CPU 12.6%
Intel ICH5R: Average 25.7MB/s Burst 27.6, CPU 2.4%

Does anyone have an explaination ? In both cases I have used the last
drivers/utilities. Am I missing some tweaking in the bios?

Also with intel Raid I have big problems when recovering from S3 standby
mode. With promise 378 I had no problem.

Thanks for giving a response

Sid

Sorry i do not have information for you, but I appreciate your post as
I have a P4C800E-Deluxe on order along with the same 2 WD 80JB drives
as you for a Raid 0 configuration. You are making my decision easy as
far as which controller to set up on! Hope you (we) get some
responses to your initial post. I am still looking around for a
decent tutorial on setting up a RAID 0 box. I downloaded an ASUS
manual and it makes the board setup look like a snap, but no
information on jumpering the drives (I assume one master one slave).
Ah well, it will all work out.

Regards,

Ender


"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

 

[Courseyauto]

Hi,

I have recently swiched my 2x80GB (wester digital 80JB) Raid0 from
promise to the intel ICH5R interface on my P4C800-E deluxe, bios 1017.002. I
was very surprised to see how much benchmarking results have fall down .
Here are some data:

Did you do a clean install when you swaped controllers? The Intel raid
controller uses a different driver.

 

[MikeSp]

I don't understand the result of your tests since the Intel controller is
part of the South Bridge and the Promise controller is
PCI-based...hmmmm--Interesting results of your tests...

MikeSp
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Sorry i do not have information for you, but I appreciate your post as
I have a P4C800E-Deluxe on order along with the same 2 WD 80JB drives
as you for a Raid 0 configuration. You are making my decision easy as
far as which controller to set up on! Hope you (we) get some
responses to your initial post. I am still looking around for a
decent tutorial on setting up a RAID 0 box. I downloaded an ASUS
manual and it makes the board setup look like a snap, but no
information on jumpering the drives (I assume one master one slave).
Ah well, it will all work out.

Regards,

Ender


"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do

nothing." Edmund Burke

 

[John]

Sorry i do not have information for you, but I appreciate your post as
I have a P4C800E-Deluxe on order along with the same 2 WD 80JB drives
as you for a Raid 0 configuration. You are making my decision easy as
far as which controller to set up on! Hope you (we) get some
responses to your initial post. I am still looking around for a
decent tutorial on setting up a RAID 0 box. I downloaded an ASUS
manual and it makes the board setup look like a snap, but no
information on jumpering the drives (I assume one master one slave).
Ah well, it will all work out.

Regards,

Ender

One problem, to use the Promise raid controller for 2 PATA drives in a
raid configuration is not the best solution, since both the drives are
connected to the single promise PATA controller and there are IDE
interface performance issues with 2 drives talking on the same
controller in a RAID configuration. Also with the promise controller the
asus manual states that at least on SATA drive is necessary in all
configurations.

Either controller, you would have been better off getting 2 SATA drives.
The price difference for WD SATA and PATA drives has dropped to within
10 dollars anyway.

I am using the same board as yours with Intel RAID 1 and 2 WD SATA drives.