I've just bought a KT7 Raid mobo and duron cpu. How do I know if my 7,200rpm hard disks are fast enough for the ATA100 raid controller.
Abit also recommend that the raid's hard disks are of similar size. Anyone shed any light on the rules of building quality raid setups?
Thanks
Snap! I've just upgraded to a KT7-RAID too!
I believe that if the specs for the drives are in any way different, then the setup will default to the lower spec of the two. I also hear that if the drive capacities are different, then you can partition the left over space as a separate volume (but don't quote me on that, I'm not sure if it's (a) at all possible and (b) if it's at all possible with the KT7-RAID)
Chris.
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Oo, and while I'm on the topic, what OS are you running at the mo? If you look at my earlier post in HD&C, I've had some problems setting my IDE channel 1 (not the highpoint controller's ide 1) to enable DMA mode in Windows 2000 - it keeps reverting to PIO mode. I know the hard disk is capable of it, because it worked under Windows 98.
I'm running win98se. I had to enable DMA on my secondary master on ide 2 which speeded up the benchmarks in Sandra.
I haven't yet tried running any projects through premier 5.1c/DV500 but I feel sure my disk now has at least ATA66 speed rather than ATA33 on my Abit bh6.
I'm now looking for another seagate barracuda 28gig disk to set up my raid- and leave my 15gig system drive in ide 1 running windows.
Tell how you get on with your new rig!