Guest Timmay Posted April 1, 2006 Posted April 1, 2006 Just a quick question. On the above motherboard there are 8 stat conectors, 4 Controled by the Silica chip and 4 by the NF4 chip (?!?!?!) what would be the best to use to set up RAID 0 on. Are they all locked? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smids Posted April 2, 2006 Posted April 2, 2006 All are indeed locked. For a RAID0, I would definitely use the nVRAID as it is tied to the PCIe BUS instead of the PCI bus. The PCI bus can saturate quickly with a RAID0 running along it and this, coupled with any demanding PCI cards you might have, makes sense to use one on the PCIe dedicated bus . I assume 4 are nV and 4 are SiI 3114? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted April 2, 2006 Posted April 2, 2006 NV SATA = superior they are all locked Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smids Posted April 2, 2006 Posted April 2, 2006 NV SATA = superior they are all locked Angry, do you have any idea if you'll start using the SiI 3132 RAID chipset on your motherboards? It's a PCI-e native and actually a good performer. Natively supports RAID0, 1, 0+1 and with a port multiplier [5?] and 10 too (got a PCIe x1 RAID card with that chipset and it's fast). I just can't believe the old chipset still hanging in there . I think ASUS use the new one (A8N32-SLI Deluxe - though know that has 40 lanes rather than 20). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted April 2, 2006 Posted April 2, 2006 Angry, do you have any idea if you'll start using the SiI 3132 RAID chipset on your motherboards? It's a PCI-e native and actually a good performer. Natively supports RAID0, 1, 0+1 and with a port multiplier [5?] and 10 too (got a PCIe x1 RAID card with that chipset and it's fast). I just can't believe the old chipset still hanging in there . I think ASUS use the new one (A8N32-SLI Deluxe - though know that has 40 lanes rather than 20). I really bitched up a storm when the RDX200 (ATI Crossfire) boards were not SI3132 enabled, and were still stuck with 3112A 2x2 SATA I especially when I received an engineering sample ATI RDX200 based motherboard from another motherboard mfg that DID have 3132 on it...and it knocked the pants off the Lanparty RDX200 RAID *sigh* I never use RAID0+1 nor RAID5 so I could care less if the controller supports it but I do use RAID0 and RAID1 on all of my main rigs so this is very important to me and besides...I'm always down with trying new things, so of course I will try a different RAID solution should a decent one become available! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Timmay Posted April 2, 2006 Posted April 2, 2006 Awsome, thanks smids. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Timmay Posted April 3, 2006 Posted April 3, 2006 Just to add to my question, Is it clearly labed as to which one is controled by what? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smids Posted April 3, 2006 Posted April 3, 2006 The nF4 ones should be yellow, but I'm not sure on the SiI ones on the expert. EDIT: Oh gawd, they are all yellow . The 4 nearest the fan are the nV ones . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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