Which Serial ATA is better?

[Mr Mean]

Hello [H]ardOCP members,

I am wondering which RAID controller would be better for my raptor drives. I have the VIA RAID and the Promise Fast Track 378 Serial ATA RAID. My guy instinct is telling me to go with the Promise Fast Track 378 but I don't know how well the VIA RAID will perform. Did anybody here do some bechmarks on the ASUS A8V deluxe motherboard to find out ( my system info is in my signature ). Thanks

 

[potroast]

VIA VIA VIA VIA VIA VIA VIA!!!!

The VIA raid is on the southbridge, which means mucho bandwidth!!! The Promise controller is on the PCI bus, which means no bandwidth

Putting a Raptor on the PCI bus is like [insert dumb thing here]


But yeah, data drives for the promise controller, and your main drive on the VIA.