SATA Controller / RAID 0

[medire]

Hello.
Can you recommend me please a controller ?
I wanna make RAID0 ,using 2 x WD 6400 AAKS.
Motherboard : Gigabyte GA EX58-UD5.
Thanks.
PS : Should be a PCI EX_1 one.
I have no more PCI EX free slots,only one PCI EX 1.
Are they (PCI EX 1 ) fast and good enough ,compared to PCI EX ?

 

[Dangman]

For RAID 0, you do not need to get a separate hardware controller if you have the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5. Just use the motherboard's onboard RAID controller.

 

[GotNoRice]

Why not use the Intel ICH10R that is built-in to the motherboard? It is actually quite a good controller.

 

[medire]

I tought it's a " cheap" one ,the onboard controller.
You think it's gonna be faster my OS (windows XP SP 3 ) ,if i use 2 x WD 6400 AAKS ,with the onboard controller ?
Thanks guys.
And,by the way :could i use a third Hdd ?
Those 2 x WD 6400 AAKS ,for RAID0 ,and one for keeping the data / movies / etc..

 

[medire]

I tought it's a " cheap" one ,the onboard controller.
You think it's gonna be faster my OS (windows XP SP 3 ) ,if i use 2 x WD 6400 AAKS ,with the onboard controller ?
Thanks guys.
And,by the way :could i use a third Hdd ?
Those 2 x WD 6400 AAKS ,for RAID0 ,and one for keeping the data / movies / etc..

??!!
" You think it's gonna be faster my OS (windows XP SP 3 ) "
I mean; OS startup ,photo / video editing / windows explorer menu / games loading /
copy from internal to external HDD ( USB cable ) / and much more...
Thanks.

 

[brownkc]

I just used the Asus P6T Deluxe V2 onboard raid (intel ICH10R) to set up my 640 AAKS in RAID 0. I used some software program with initials (BRM?) to test the speed and got 130 MB/s avg read and 150 MB/s avg write. Don't know the accuracy of the software tester but seems to be fairly quick.

 

[GotNoRice]

??!!
" You think it's gonna be faster my OS (windows XP SP 3 ) "
I mean; OS startup ,photo / video editing / windows explorer menu / games loading /
copy from internal to external HDD ( USB cable ) / and much more...
Thanks.

Is it going to make your OS faster? That depends. Raid-0 will speed up your sequential transfer speeds (large and/or contiguous blocks of information) but what it will not speed up is when your drives are randomly accessing smaller files. In many cases, that is that impacts performance, and Raid-0 won't help.

Transfers to an external USB hard drive are going to be limited by the USB bandwidth more than anything else, so Raid-0 won't help there either.

If you really want something where you will notice the difference, where it will make your Operating system "feel" faster, and really have an impact on menu as well as game loading times, get an SSD. If you can't afford an SSD even a faster drive like a Raptor which is 10,000RPM with lower access times would likely help more than a Raid-0 setup of slower drives.