SATA RAID + non-RAID SATA [Archive]

G-Spot

11-02-2004, 12:20 PM

I am building a video editing computer and would like to use the latest P4 CPU and DDRII RAM. I am looking at a few Intel 925X based mobos and noticed the ASUS P5AD2 has 2 SATA controllers. Would this be benificial if I want to connect 2 harddrives in raid and a seperate system SATA harddrive on the other controller? Would a motherboard with a single controller have slower transfer if I use 2 SATA connectors for the RAID and a third for the system harddrive?

todlerix

11-03-2004, 03:28 AM

video editing needs high performance HD in my opinon, quicker loading, faster writing so on..

so raid 0 and if u wanna keep ur data safe, do raid 0 + 1

G-Spot

11-03-2004, 11:12 AM

I know that. RAID 0 will be used. I am wondering about connecting a separate application haddrive to a different controller or the sane controller and if it makes a difference

Lazn_Work

11-03-2004, 11:55 AM

With SATA you only get 1 drive per controller so I don't quite see the problem.

If they are all SATA they will each be on their own controller, even if some of them are RAID and some are not.

==>Lazn

Tigerbiten

11-03-2004, 06:42 PM

The answer is probably yes.
You will need to look a the motherboards block diagram and see which bus each controller is connected to.
Are they both independent busses or is one on the PCI bus, etc, etc.
Then its a case how much load you will be putting on each controllers bus before you add the drives data.

Luck............ :D
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Lazn_Work

11-04-2004, 11:31 AM

The answer is probably yes.
You will need to look a the motherboards block diagram and see which bus each controller is connected to.
Are they both independent busses or is one on the PCI bus, etc, etc.
Then its a case how much load you will be putting on each controllers bus before you add the drives data.
Luck............ :D

True but SATA drives are not fast enough even in RAID 0 to saturate the PCI bus, so he really doesn't have to worry about it. If he were running multiple RAID 0 or 10 or 4 drive RAID 0 he might start caring. But as it is he will be fine.

==>Lazn