2 raid 0 on p5w dh??

[Dan2kx]

hello to all, im interested in buying the asus p5w dh motherboard and want to use 4 drives on it
2 x 150GB WD 16MBc raptors in raid 0 for system
2 x 500GB WD RE2 16mbc in raid 0 for storage

ive looked at the spec for the board and the southbridge has 3 sata another chip has 1 internal and one external and another 2 internal(which is for ez backup) with this chip facilitate using the drives for storage or are they for backing up only?

i hope i have explained this adequately enough
and thanks to any who reply

PS
-the alternative ive been cooking up is to raid 0 3 raptors and add an old 500 i have lying around from another system.

 

[geff_r]

why on earth would you want raid 0 for storage / work space
i thought the whole idea of raid is simply to have apps / programs load faster

 

[w3bbo]

iirc yes you can have two lots of raid, one on the ich8r(might be ich7r) controller and one on the EZ-backup(Jmicron?) controller. The EZ-backup controller is crap tbh so I would just Raid the raptors on the ich8r(red/black sata slots) for your applications/programs and have the 2x500GB drives as storage.

 

[Datamonkey]

Hey up,

Yes you can do it, but its crap.

Main reason i sold the board and went for the bad axe2


Problem with th ep5w is only 3 of the sata ports are on the intel controller.

So you need to set 2 disks up on that,

and then enable the asus ez raid and put 2 on that, while the asus ez raid is easy to setup i found the performance of it rubbish

 

[Dan2kx]

the idea of the storage raid is to increase read/write speeds, at the moment i have to old raptors (74GB 8MBc) in raid 0 and one 500GB WD.
I use the raid for system, programs and workspace and transfer to the storage when im done. the reason for wanting raid 0 on the storage drive is to reduce the moving times or even do the work straight onto the storage drive if it performs good.

 

[Datamonkey]

p5w does not perform good, on the ez controller.

i do the same as you. But ended up selling it to a mate who is not going to use raid. Bad Axe2 all the way mate.

 

[Dan2kx]

i like the rest of the features of the board and its good for overclocking as well,

there is another solution ive been cooking up and thats to use
3 raptors in raid 0 and just stick one 500GB WD somewhere

or two raptors and a 750GB seagate?

or what about getting a raid controller?!

if i have to get a different board the striker looks good but i hear that the chipset hinders quad core Overclocking..