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Difference between 7N400 PRO /7N400 PRO Nforce2
Hi,
I trying to figure out what the difference is between 7N400 PRO and the 7N400 PRO2 as far as concerned the performance of the Media and Communications Processor(MCP) for 7N400 PRO2 and Media and Communications Processor - Turbo (MCP-T) for the 7N400 PRO. Does anyone now? If I read the manual carefully, I like to move my excising setup from a Promise Fasttrack 100 on MSI KT4V with XP2400+ (standard locked) to either the 7N400 PRO or 7N400 PRO2 with the following setup: IDE RAID 0 span 1 (IDE3+4 master) 2* Maxtor 40GB (5400 rpm, 2mb cache) as boot and extra space harddisk IDE RAID 0 span 2 (IDE3+4 slave) 2* Maxtor 80GB (7200 rpm, 2mb cache, liquid bearing) extra space harddisk with several partitions SATA RAID 0 2* Maxtor 120GB (SATA, 8MB cache, 7200rpm) IDE 1 - Liteon DVD writer IDE 2 - Liteon DVD ROM I assume I have used al my IDE/SATA then, but it is possible or not? Does this mainboard unlock the my chip actually, or do I still have to manually unlock my chip? thanks Brian |
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You are correct in your configuration. You can put up to 4 IDE disks
on the GigaRAID (IDE 3/4) channels and one disk each on the SATA channels. Having benchmarked the GigaRAID (IDE3/4) on this board as well as seeing what other people have posted, I was very disappointed. IDE RAID 0 ran slower than a single, non-RAID IDE drive. You do RAID 0 for performance or to get the effect of one large disk from several small disks. If you are going to partition the RAID 0 array anyway, then why not just run each disk as a separate partition on IDE 1/2 and forget RAID 0? I would also use the fastest disk(s) (7200RPM and 8MB cache)as the boot disk since that's where most of your activity will be. As for the SATA RAID, I had nothing but trouble with it. I was using WD 800JB 80GB IDE disks with Rockethead 100 SATA converters in a RAID 0 array. The SATA subsystem would periodically just stop accessing one of the RAID disks. I've had to revert to just running a single disk on IDE 1. \(news\)" wrote in message ... Hi, I trying to figure out what the difference is between 7N400 PRO and the 7N400 PRO2 as far as concerned the performance of the Media and Communications Processor(MCP) for 7N400 PRO2 and Media and Communications Processor - Turbo (MCP-T) for the 7N400 PRO. Does anyone now? If I read the manual carefully, I like to move my excising setup from a Promise Fasttrack 100 on MSI KT4V with XP2400+ (standard locked) to either the 7N400 PRO or 7N400 PRO2 with the following setup: IDE RAID 0 span 1 (IDE3+4 master) 2* Maxtor 40GB (5400 rpm, 2mb cache) as boot and extra space harddisk IDE RAID 0 span 2 (IDE3+4 slave) 2* Maxtor 80GB (7200 rpm, 2mb cache, liquid bearing) extra space harddisk with several partitions SATA RAID 0 2* Maxtor 120GB (SATA, 8MB cache, 7200rpm) IDE 1 - Liteon DVD writer IDE 2 - Liteon DVD ROM I assume I have used al my IDE/SATA then, but it is possible or not? Does this mainboard unlock the my chip actually, or do I still have to manually unlock my chip? thanks Brian |
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