What raid controler

N1S · 10 Mar 2009 at 18:56

need some help from people who know about raid controlers.

i need a 4 or 8 port hardware sata11 controler to work on asus motherboard (m3a79-t) in a pci express slot at 8x running on vista 64.

i have been looking but cant seem to find may that will suit my needs

any help would be welcome

N1S · 10 Mar 2009 at 21:49

just looking to run raid 0 but want something faster than onboard stuff

N1S · 10 Mar 2009 at 22:13

well i had 2 drives in raid0 and was getting an average off 106 mbs and when i added another 2 to make it 4 drives in raid0 it only went to 120 mbs average.

i thought it must be down to onboard software bottleneck.??

N1S · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:52

the motherboard uses amd sb750 not sure how it compares to intel ones but i have tried various drivers and setups and none off them have come close to what it should be for read and write on raid 0

N1S · 13 Mar 2009 at 17:47

it is the deluxe motherboard with amd 9950be chip running 2.8GHz.
i had 2 ocz ssd v2 in raid0 which i had some bother with and gave up in the end and at the moment i have 4 X seagate barracuda drives in raid0. i would just like to get rid off this bottleneck.

thanks for all the help so far.

N1S · 13 Mar 2009 at 21:54

it is set up correctly as far as i know, when i added the other 2 identical drives i re-done the raid with a fresh install on vista 64 home premium. i have been using raid0 on all of my pc's for many years and this is the first board that seems slow.