I've searched through the forums and this has come up a couple of times but I'm slightly confused over the best way to manage the controllers.
I have a Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4 mobo, this has an Intel ICH10R controller and a Gigabyte SATA2 controller. At the moment I'm looking to run a single non-RAID HD for the OS (still Win XP atm) and then a RAID 1 pair of 500gb Seagate Barracudas for my data, at some point in the future I may want to put the OS on a RAID 0 pair.
What is the best way to set up the controllers? I've read that it's best to put the non-RAID drive on a different controller to the RAID pair.
I've also read here that the JMicron chip (not sure if this is the Gigabyte SATA controller?) can lag sometimes on reading (I know this post is quite old). Would I be best off putting the RAID 1 data on the intel controller and the OS on the gigabyte or vice-versa? How complex would it be to make the OS RAID 0 in the future (If I took an image of it say)? and what would be the correct order to install everything with for XP? Another thread that I can't locate now said it was worth preloading both SATA drivers anyway even if you don't use them.
Cheers,
Alex
I have a Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4 mobo, this has an Intel ICH10R controller and a Gigabyte SATA2 controller. At the moment I'm looking to run a single non-RAID HD for the OS (still Win XP atm) and then a RAID 1 pair of 500gb Seagate Barracudas for my data, at some point in the future I may want to put the OS on a RAID 0 pair.
What is the best way to set up the controllers? I've read that it's best to put the non-RAID drive on a different controller to the RAID pair.
I've also read here that the JMicron chip (not sure if this is the Gigabyte SATA controller?) can lag sometimes on reading (I know this post is quite old). Would I be best off putting the RAID 1 data on the intel controller and the OS on the gigabyte or vice-versa? How complex would it be to make the OS RAID 0 in the future (If I took an image of it say)? and what would be the correct order to install everything with for XP? Another thread that I can't locate now said it was worth preloading both SATA drivers anyway even if you don't use them.
Cheers,
Alex