Abit's RAID

[Cirrocco]

What's the deal with RAID?
ie: is it a chipset or something else? and is it something I should consider when I upgrade?
(short of going to look for the answer in archives, I figured this would get me the fastest answer.)

my machine is a K6-2 500 with an Epox MVP3G2 mobo.

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[LTJLover]

Dude..I am running that same board with my K6-3 400. Nice board. The RAID is nice. I'm sorry if I'm worng...but from your article I take it you don't know what RAID is. It stands for Redundant array of inexpensive Disks. Using a RAID controller card or built in chip on certain motherboards, up to 4 drives can be connected in RAID. This allows for 3 main features. RAID 0 is called striping. This simply means that it takes multiple drives and writes part of a file on each one. this way it can read the data in parallel fromt he disks resulting theoretically in double the transfer rate. RAID 1 is called mirroring and simply copies whatever you write to the disk on two disks, so if one disk ever fails you have an exact image. RAID 0+1 is a combination of both. The RAID is nice if you do big file transfers like in video editing or loading big game levels. It won't really help in actually game play unless there is massive data transfer involved. I have heard that Quake level loading time can be cut by like 10 seconds using RAID. It is definately nice, but not necessary. The KT7 RAID board rocks if you are going AMD. Hope this helped.

Jon
"Water-Cooled CPU Runner"

 

[Geeba]

You can always buy Abit's RAID controller as a PCI card, rather than onboard. It has the same promise controller as the KT7-RAID, as is only £30 ($40)... why I could add one of these beauties to my DX4

 

[Cirrocco]

Muchly appreciated!
I did not know that it was a controller...and hence something not to even worry about for my next upgrade.
(I'm a big fan of keeping it simple)
So, I take it that this motherboard just has the raid controller on board.(?)

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[LTJLover]

The KT7 RAID has the highpoint RAID controller chip on the board, but you can also buy the KT7 regular board without this feature for like $20 less.

Jon
"Water-Cooled CPU Runner"