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I'm looking to build a RAID array either on the PATA or SATA channels
on my GA-K8VT800 Pro board. The drives I want to use will be either
120gig or 160gig and will have 8mb of cache; I'm not sure which
manufacturer to go with yet.
I would like to ask:
1. This board is an Athlon 64 board, it has both a Parallel ATA
RAID controller (IT8212 chipset) and a VIA VT6420 SATA RAID
Controller; I'm unsure as to how much processing load the SATA
controller takes on, I'm interested in loading the CPU as little as
possible (the IT8212 claims to have a proper processor controlling the
RAID function for minimal CPU load). Which of these two would load
the CPU less?
2. Of the two - which would be faster overall in a RAID 0
(striping) configuration if the PATA and SATA versions of the drives
were identical in all but interface?
3. I want to run RAID 0 striping - I will have a daily backup of
all critical data areas to another drive (off the array) and weekly
migration of the backup files to another system for DVD archiving but
I want to ensure that the array is as reliable as possible. I've had
some problems with some Western Digital drives in this spec range
getting along with the PATA controller on the similar GA-7N400PRO2
board and am wondering if there are any known issues with drives out
there working with the Gigabyte controllers, particularly SATA units?
My overall priority for this configuration is:
1. reliability (by far and away the #1 consideration)
2. speed (very important)
3. low thermal output (moderately important)
4. low noise output (nice to have but not hugely important)
I'm looking to build a RAID array either on the PATA or SATA channels
on my GA-K8VT800 Pro board. The drives I want to use will be either
120gig or 160gig and will have 8mb of cache; I'm not sure which
manufacturer to go with yet.
I would like to ask:
1. This board is an Athlon 64 board, it has both a Parallel ATA
RAID controller (IT8212 chipset) and a VIA VT6420 SATA RAID
Controller; I'm unsure as to how much processing load the SATA
controller takes on, I'm interested in loading the CPU as little as
possible (the IT8212 claims to have a proper processor controlling the
RAID function for minimal CPU load). Which of these two would load
the CPU less?
2. Of the two - which would be faster overall in a RAID 0
(striping) configuration if the PATA and SATA versions of the drives
were identical in all but interface?
3. I want to run RAID 0 striping - I will have a daily backup of
all critical data areas to another drive (off the array) and weekly
migration of the backup files to another system for DVD archiving but
I want to ensure that the array is as reliable as possible. I've had
some problems with some Western Digital drives in this spec range
getting along with the PATA controller on the similar GA-7N400PRO2
board and am wondering if there are any known issues with drives out
there working with the Gigabyte controllers, particularly SATA units?
My overall priority for this configuration is:
1. reliability (by far and away the #1 consideration)
2. speed (very important)
3. low thermal output (moderately important)
4. low noise output (nice to have but not hugely important)
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