What is the benefit of a SATA RAID controller?

Mikey1280 · 27 Jan 2006 at 13:25

Hi. I am just curious to know what the benefit of a SATA RAID controller is over the standard Nforce 4 SATA controllers. Are they faster or something than the Nforce 4 controller, does PCI not slow them down, are the PCI express versions any faster? Are they purely just to add more SATA ports?

Mikey1280 · 28 Jan 2006 at 20:44

Smids how much CPU usage do your drives on your controller, will you do the HDtune benchmarking test so I can compare with mine, what drives you got?

Mikey1280 · 28 Jan 2006 at 21:25

thanks a lot smids I will get this HDtach program then to compare. Do you know anything about SCSI drives?

Mikey1280 · 28 Jan 2006 at 22:17

Lol, so was the purchase of a Raptor 150 justified? My mate wants to get a SCSI setup just wondered if you knew anything about them. Thanks

Mikey1280 · 28 Jan 2006 at 22:56

Lol I could never justify buying a raptor and dont have the money! What file size did you set the drive to 128kb,16kb etc or is this only for RAID. Hmmm 2 raptor 150s in RAid 0

now that would be nice

Mikey1280 · 28 Jan 2006 at 23:00

Lol, when are the PS3s meant to be coming out? Have you got the normal raptor 150 or the raptor 150 X edition