Sata controllers and JBOD

wichall

wichall

wichall

Associate
Joined
27 Oct 2004
Posts
208
Sata controllers and JBOD.

Hi all, I currently have a Asus A8n SLI-Premium.

All 4 of the standard SATA ports filled, if i buy more hard drives can I only run them in RAID on the silicon image controller or does the silicon image controller allow you to run them as "normal" hard disks, I don't want to run RAID and I've also heard that if controllers offer JBOD they can lock that hard drive to only that controller is this true?

Also, if I can't do this on the Silicon RAID ports will I be able to acheive this on one of those adaptec controllers on ocuk?

Thanks
 
Last edited:
Right both new drives are connected to the Sil Image controller, if I enable it in bios i get the silicon image bios come up with only the options to make jbod and raid, if i leave the drives as they are and try to boot it will just hang on POST after the sil image bios.
 
Someone must have some ideas, all I want is to be able to add these 2 500GB drives as "normal" drives to my system, either using the Silicon controller or something else, the XFX ones look good but can I use these for non-RAID drives?

(I need to move drives between controllers which is why I don't want RAID or JBOD)
 
Thanks for the reply, after some searching it turns out ASUS disabled the SATA mode option somewhere along the way which is just great...

I'll have a look in that review now and then find somewhere to buy it, OCUK's stock is surprisingly small on SATA controllers.

Also, is there any performance loss using PCI for a SATA controller? If so does PCI-Express have a performance loss too?
 
The XFX card doesn't seem to be non-RAID compliant, it's so annoying that the lacie card is out of stock with no ETA, that would be perfect, I'll just use JBOD for now i suppose, and when I start moving the drives back and forth I'll just have to have another look for a non-RAID controller.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom