Reading the manual of my (yet to arrive) ga-p55m-ud2, I see sata ports (2) dedicated to a Gigabye controller, and other Sata dedicated to an Intel controller (7, I think).
The manual is quite specific how to enable either and use either set for raid, but nothing indicates the reason one would have two different controllers.
What's the point? Anyone know?
I plan to boot from a standalone drive, have a second standalone drive as a scratch storage, and finally have two additional drives in raid 1 for work storage.
Would there be any logic that would drive me to use one or the other controllers for the raid? or the boot?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
Best,
Bob
System in transit:
i7 860 on Gigabyte ga-p55m-ud2; 4x2 mb G.Skill ddr3-1600
The manual is quite specific how to enable either and use either set for raid, but nothing indicates the reason one would have two different controllers.
What's the point? Anyone know?
I plan to boot from a standalone drive, have a second standalone drive as a scratch storage, and finally have two additional drives in raid 1 for work storage.
Would there be any logic that would drive me to use one or the other controllers for the raid? or the boot?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
Best,
Bob
System in transit:
i7 860 on Gigabyte ga-p55m-ud2; 4x2 mb G.Skill ddr3-1600