P5B-VM MATX

[PsychoDuck]

I am thinking of getting one of these boards for a new HTPC core duo build. One thing I am concerned about is whether is supports raid 1 with two internal sata drives as in the specifications it lists raid 0/1 support via 1 internal and 1 external connection.

Can someone who owns one of these kindly let me know if this is the case.

 

[PsychoDuck]

Are you certain about that because I have just ordered this board and in the manual it clearly states that the intel controller which has 6 SATA connetors does support RAID. Im not going to be happy if this isnt the case.

 

[PsychoDuck]

No need to get shirty, I was only asking a question. Someone wrote a user review about the board on another site and it said that the only way to get RAID was to use 1 internal and 1 external connector. So i thought I would download the user manual from the ASUS website and it clearly states:-

The Intel ICH8DO chipset incorporates six Serial ATA connectors with high performance RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 functions.

Just wanted to know for sure from someone who actually owns one.

Also page 1-8 does have the board layout and it does show 7 internal SATA connectors. The manual filename is : e2869_p5b-vm-do.pdf.

[Edit] I have just found out where the confusion is, it looks like Asus do several flavours of this board with slightly different codes after the model name i.e. P5B-VM DO etc.