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P4C800-E Deluxe - Intel or Promise RAID?
Googled for an answer but didn't find anything...
I've got a new P4C800-E deluxe arriving tomorrow and I'd like opinions on which is better for RAID-0; intel or promise? Thanks in advance. Mark |
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I've got a new P4C800-E deluxe arriving tomorrow and I'd like opinions
on which is better for RAID-0; intel or promise? While we're at it, does the Silicon Image RAID controller have any advantages over the NVIDIA one on the K8N-E? Other than the obvious four drives instead of two; I don't have four drives. |
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IMHO, the Intel is superior since it is a part of the Intel South Bridge
chipset whereas the Promise controller runs on the PCI bus (I would disable the Promise controller in the BIOS). FWIW, I am running RAID 0 Raptors, two IDE optical drives and a backup PATA HDD off of the Intel controller and they all work great. For your consideration: While I am running RAID 0 Raptors with that same motherboard, I will not utilize them again in RAID 0 when I routinely reload Windows from scratch in a year, since I do not do much video editing and recent articles in Maximum PC magazine (October, page 72), Anandtech.com and Storagereview.com show that after extensive testing that RAID 0 is no faster, and may actually be slightly slower, for gaming and routine computer use. Wish I had known that before I set up my RAID system a few months ago. Good luck, MikeSp ------------------------------ "Mark" wrote in message ... Googled for an answer but didn't find anything... I've got a new P4C800-E deluxe arriving tomorrow and I'd like opinions on which is better for RAID-0; intel or promise? Thanks in advance. Mark |
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