4 Port Raid Card...

bluetech · 22 Nov 2006 at 18:48

What I would like to do:

RAID 0(Striped): 2x SATAII (3.0Gb/s) 160GB (SYSTEM)

RAID 1(Mirrored): 2x SATAII (3.0Gb/s) 320GB (DATA)

Using:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-022-AD

Would this be OK? Or is there something I am missing?

Thanks Guys, all your help is much appreciated!

bluetech · 22 Nov 2006 at 20:52

rpstewart said:
Do you not have onboard RAID support though?

I am now looking into this board, but I dont have a need for the crossfire technology (only need one pci-express x16 slot for one graphics card).

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-072-MS

You see I am looking to build a system (my first) and am doing my homework first (I have seen many failed attempts by friends and am REALLY doing my research. Here is what I have so far (trying to keep value for money in mind), could any one let me know what they think?

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB ST3160811AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB ST3160811AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
MSI 975X Platinum PowerUP Edition (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Thermaltake PurePower Blue LED 460W ATX2.0 Power Supply

Thanks guy's, this is a really helpfull comunity!

bluetech · 22 Nov 2006 at 23:21

rpstewart said:
Well firstly no need for a RAID card to do what you were talking about with the HDDs, the MSI board has sufficient ports to run a pair of arrays.

I would look at a pair of 200Gb 7200.10s rather than the 7200.9s you've got in that list, the newer 7200.10 features perpendicular recording which packs data closer together on the disk platters. This in turn produces better sustained transfer rates, the difference between a 7200.9 & a .10 can be as much as 15%.

Hmmm, thanks for the advice there, I will bear that in mind. I was aware that the board had raid support and I thought I would use this for my HDD's. It's good to know that it will sufficiantly run a pair though (I am a little new to raid).

Thanks again!

bluetech · 22 Nov 2006 at 23:40

Just a quick question, I know that the latter is a better processor. But why is this? what performance differences could I expect to see?:

Intel Pentium 4 820 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.8GHz (800FSB) - Retail
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

Thank you all very much!

bluetech · 29 Nov 2006 at 22:14

lay-z-boy said:
general use, not much

games, encoding, anything cpu intensive, the c2d will shine.

http://tomshardware.co.uk/cpu/charts.html?modelx=33&model1=432&model2=447&chart=167

go through all the tests to see what the difference is.

Thank you very much, much abliged!