I currently have two Seagate 40GB ST340014A drives. If I'm reading the ASUS P4C800 manual right, it looks like you can only plug drives you want to RAID into the blue connector that is near the bottom of the board. Since there is just one connector, this means the drives would have to be master and slave on the same cable.
I hooked both drives up in a Master/Slave configuration to that one port and created a RAID0 array including them. I used a 64kb stripe size and formatted the disk with NTFS using the deafult cluster size. Windows XP installation took 55 minutes and the other benchmarks I have done on this setup are awful.
One of the drives alone when not raided returns a PC Mark drive score of 1081. Both drives RAIDED return a score of 635. Awful!
So, did I read the manual wrong? Can you plug parrallel drives into any connectors on the board and RAID them? Or is the real problem that there is only one RAID port and having two devices on the same channel is slowing the issue down?
Would the better move be to buy two parallel to SATA converters and hook them up to the drives and connect those to the onboard SATA RAID connectors
I hooked both drives up in a Master/Slave configuration to that one port and created a RAID0 array including them. I used a 64kb stripe size and formatted the disk with NTFS using the deafult cluster size. Windows XP installation took 55 minutes and the other benchmarks I have done on this setup are awful.
One of the drives alone when not raided returns a PC Mark drive score of 1081. Both drives RAIDED return a score of 635. Awful!
So, did I read the manual wrong? Can you plug parrallel drives into any connectors on the board and RAID them? Or is the real problem that there is only one RAID port and having two devices on the same channel is slowing the issue down?
Would the better move be to buy two parallel to SATA converters and hook them up to the drives and connect those to the onboard SATA RAID connectors