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Hi,
Can anybody tell my why the GA-965P-DS4 has two different SATA2 controllers onboard? One's Intel and the other is Gigabyte, and they control 6 and 2 drives respectively. Great to have so many drive connectors, but which one should I use?
To avoid power and noise problems I'm probably only going to run one Samsung SP 250gb SATA2 drive and an IDE NEC DVD-RW, though I may decide to have an 80gb SATA2 drive for the system disk (or maybe a 76mb WD Raptor if someone can convince me they ain't too noisy) and use the 250gb disk for data/music/pr0n etc
Say I go for the single disk option now - whats the best onboard controller for that and what mode should I set it too for optimum SATA2 speed? IDE or AHCI? Also, if I went for AHCI mode does that mean I have to create a driver disk for XP pre-setup?
I've not had a SATA2 system, though I did setup a RAID array on a SATA system before. I'm not bothered about RAID at the moment, though the thought of two Raptors setup on RAID sends a shiver down my spine!
Can anybody tell my why the GA-965P-DS4 has two different SATA2 controllers onboard? One's Intel and the other is Gigabyte, and they control 6 and 2 drives respectively. Great to have so many drive connectors, but which one should I use?
To avoid power and noise problems I'm probably only going to run one Samsung SP 250gb SATA2 drive and an IDE NEC DVD-RW, though I may decide to have an 80gb SATA2 drive for the system disk (or maybe a 76mb WD Raptor if someone can convince me they ain't too noisy) and use the 250gb disk for data/music/pr0n etc
Say I go for the single disk option now - whats the best onboard controller for that and what mode should I set it too for optimum SATA2 speed? IDE or AHCI? Also, if I went for AHCI mode does that mean I have to create a driver disk for XP pre-setup?
I've not had a SATA2 system, though I did setup a RAID array on a SATA system before. I'm not bothered about RAID at the moment, though the thought of two Raptors setup on RAID sends a shiver down my spine!
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