RAID experience with A8N-SLI and Maxtor SATA 300GB

[JohnTheLuck]

Hi all,

I should receive my new rig in a few days, and I would like to know if someone ever encountered any problems setting a RAID-1 using two Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA 300GB drives on an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium. These drives will only contain data since I will get a Raptor 74GB for the OS and applications.

Also, on which controller should I put the drives on. I think the nForce4 have two embedded controllers. Is this true? I should probably put a DiamondMax 10 on each of them, and put the Raptor on the external Silicon Image controller.

Any info would be welcome.

Thanks,

JTL

 

[grooge]

I would download the manual for the board you'll be getting and have a look at it. It will answer the question you have about how many controller and connector this board have. It is on Asus web site.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

This board has 4 ports on the NF4, and 4 ports on the SI for a total of 8 sata.

You can configure them as you like

 

[JohnTheLuck]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
This board has 4 ports on the NF4, and 4 ports on the SI for a total of 8 sata.

You can configure them as you like

That's right, but what is the best configuration, performance wise? I would think that putting all the drives on the same controller would result in less performance. Can you confirm the nce of two internal controllers into the nForce4?

JTL

 

[JohnTheLuck]

Any suggestion?

JTL