To me data safety is more important than outright speed, and as I'm looking to build a new system I'm considering using onboard fake raid 5 (Raid 5 on bios with 3 hd's). Various articles I've read says about the cpu doing all the work etc. but with Quad cores and 4GB of ram, how much of an impact will this actually be? And if these raid 5 bios stuff is SOOOO bad (Which seems to be the normal comment) then why do they put it on?
Raid 5 fake setup
- Thread starter Mat-d-Rat
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Not bad at all 
What about write though, and I did read that teh Intel raid system was good. I'm looking at an AM3 system so no intel raid. Thanks for taking the time to show that, may I enquire as to what disks? I was looking at samsung f1's
What about write though, and I did read that teh Intel raid system was good. I'm looking at an AM3 system so no intel raid. Thanks for taking the time to show that, may I enquire as to what disks? I was looking at samsung f1'sWell after building the system with raid-5 the performance was abysmal, peeked at around 60mb/s. As I had 4 drives I have switched to raid 10 and now get around 210mb/s average (Tad better than raid 5!). Again thanks for your input though, but this Gigabyte 7980XTA-UD4 is rubbish for raid-5.