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Possibly tomorrow when Novatech open again but they do not appear to have any drivers on their web page and Pegatron who are apparently an offshoot of Asus do not have any drivers on their's either.

Does anyone know how we can get drivers for a laptop using this motherboard please? Thanks Chris

As far as defragging goes for what it is worth we have found that using the Defrag built in to windows on a RAID 0 array normally dramatically slows it down. We have observed this on every system where we have tried it. I suspect that a more proffessional package like Biuzzsaw or the full...

Thanks Sminlal, That puts the facts as we know them and the symptoms we are observing quite nicely. I am still slightly surprised by just how much the thing slows down but otherwise quite a masterful explanation.

I would got for the SATA Pci card myself and get the speed advantage of the SATA. However as you correctly surmise this depends on whether or not Freenas has drivers for the card in question. A very quick look at the documentation on their website does not inspire confidence. You could look...

We are using the onboard ICH10R controller, I do not think we have updated the Bios on any of the Motherboards. We have repeated the test on two other systems both of which recover to close to their original performance after just deleting the data. Because all that deleting does is mark the...

Do you see the drive if you run the Disk Management applet in Administrative tools?

I don't know this specific card but often with these plug in card you need to go into the RAID setup utility when booting the system and specify that the disk(s) attached to the card are non RAID, then windows will probably see them. Have you been into the Hardware manager to see if the DATA...

We use RAID 0 arrays to store data captured by our high speed microfilm scanners. When first installed and formatted our RAID arrays typically achieve write speeds of about 96 MB/s which is what we need as the scanners can generate up to 80 GB/s of data. The systems hosting the arrays are Quad...

First, if you are using your motherboard's built in RAID, reboot your computer and go into the Bios. I assume you are using SATA drives so you first need to check that your SATA controller is set up to support RAID. Next check in your BIOS whether you need to individually enable raid for each...