Just slapped together a system for a friend yesterday, but used his old drive (Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 30G ATA/66 7200RPM). Used a Gigabyte GA-7VXRP KT333 with a 1700+.
I've assembled a fair number of RAID boards in the past few months and always use a pair of ATA/100 IBM drives in RAID 0 config. This time I had to put the drive on IDE1 (non-RAID of course).
Bottom line: Even though it should be a jet, it seemed like a turtle with that single slower drive on it. I checked all performance paramters in the BIOS and everything was set right. Process activation was the worst part. Once things wre running they were acceptable.
I told the guy that if he's disappointed in the performance to just give me another $200 and I'll re do it with the RAID array.
I just didn't think it would be THAT noticeable. Live and learn, I guess.
<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>
I've assembled a fair number of RAID boards in the past few months and always use a pair of ATA/100 IBM drives in RAID 0 config. This time I had to put the drive on IDE1 (non-RAID of course).
Bottom line: Even though it should be a jet, it seemed like a turtle with that single slower drive on it. I checked all performance paramters in the BIOS and everything was set right. Process activation was the worst part. Once things wre running they were acceptable.
I told the guy that if he's disappointed in the performance to just give me another $200 and I'll re do it with the RAID array.
I just didn't think it would be THAT noticeable. Live and learn, I guess.
<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>