A8V - Promise vs. VIA RAID

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Hey All,
I just purchased the A8V, and didn't realize that it had 2 raid
controllers - the VIA for 2 SATA drives and the Promise for the other
2 SATA drives and the IDE Master. The manual didn't really go into the
differences, so is there anything to consider when setting this up??
(Right now I plan on using 2 250Gb RAID-1 SATA drives for file
storage, and 2 40Gb RAID-1 EIDE drives for OS and less-used storage).

Thanks for any advice!
chickenhawk

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Hello, ChickenHawk!
You wrote on Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:37:48 GMT:

FWIW, I found the Promise controller to be flakey on my board. I had setup a
2 drive RAID0 arrary and got cycling of the reads from about 1 mb/sec to
over 100 mb/sec averaging not much better than a single drive. With the Via
I consistently get in the 100-120 mb/sec reads.

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
E-mail: colonelblip.no.spam.please@bigfoot.com

C> Hey All,
C> I just purchased the A8V, and didn't realize that it had 2 raid
C> controllers - the VIA for 2 SATA drives and the Promise for the other
C> 2 SATA drives and the IDE Master. The manual didn't really go into the
C> differences, so is there anything to consider when setting this up??
C> (Right now I plan on using 2 250Gb RAID-1 SATA drives for file
C> storage, and 2 40Gb RAID-1 EIDE drives for OS and less-used storage).

C> Thanks for any advice!
C> chickenhawk



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Hello, ChickenHawk!
You wrote on Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:37:48 GMT:

FWIW, I found the Promise controller to be flakey on my board. I had setup a
2 drive RAID0 arrary and got cycling of the reads from about 1 mb/sec to
over 100 mb/sec averaging not much better than a single drive. With the Via
I consistently get in the 100-120 mb/sec reads.

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
E-mail: colonelblip.no.spam.please@bigfoot.com

C> Hey All,
C> I just purchased the A8V, and didn't realize that it had 2 raid
C> controllers - the VIA for 2 SATA drives and the Promise for the other
C> 2 SATA drives and the IDE Master. The manual didn't really go into the
C> differences, so is there anything to consider when setting this up??
C> (Right now I plan on using 2 250Gb RAID-1 SATA drives for file
C> storage, and 2 40Gb RAID-1 EIDE drives for OS and less-used storage).

C> Thanks for any advice!
C> chickenhawk



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Thanks for the advice! Sorry for not responding earlier - been
fighting through mobo issues!


On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:57:04 -0500, "Colonel Blip"
<colonelblip.no.spam.please@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>Hello, ChickenHawk!
>You wrote on Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:37:48 GMT:
>
>FWIW, I found the Promise controller to be flakey on my board. I had setup a
>2 drive RAID0 arrary and got cycling of the reads from about 1 mb/sec to
>over 100 mb/sec averaging not much better than a single drive. With the Via
>I consistently get in the 100-120 mb/sec reads.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Colonel Blip.
>E-mail: colonelblip.no.spam.please@bigfoot.com
>
> C> Hey All,
> C> I just purchased the A8V, and didn't realize that it had 2 raid
> C> controllers - the VIA for 2 SATA drives and the Promise for the other
> C> 2 SATA drives and the IDE Master. The manual didn't really go into the
> C> differences, so is there anything to consider when setting this up??
> C> (Right now I plan on using 2 250Gb RAID-1 SATA drives for file
> C> storage, and 2 40Gb RAID-1 EIDE drives for OS and less-used storage).
>
> C> Thanks for any advice!
> C> chickenhawk
>
>
>
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