RAID 0 on P4PE

[Wiel Gulpen]

In my PC is a Asus P4PE motherboard with Promise Fasttrack 376 controller.
On Primary IDE I have an Maxtor 80 Gb. 7200 Rpm 2 Mb. Because I use my PC's
te work with video I bought a second harddisk (Samsung 160 Gb. 7200 Bmb.)
Because of the better performance I connected the second drive to the
Promise controller IDE. It configures RAID 1+0. The performance is very
good: the Maxtor on Sisoft sandra 27.000, the Samsung drive on the Promise
37.000. A performance boost.

There is a slight problem: when booting, the booting proces lasts much much
longer: 3 tot 4 times and the Maxtor disk is continuing working ore
something, it rattles.

Without the new harddisk it boots much faster.

Has someone an explenation?

Wiel

 

[DaveW]

When setting up any RAID array, you HAVE to use identically sized
harddrives. You did not.

 

[Leythos]

When setting up any RAID array, you HAVE to use identically sized
harddrives. You did not.

Not true at all - you have to allocate identical size spaces on each
drive. If you had a 160GB drive and a 240GB drive you could only create
a mirror or stripe with a max size of 160GB.