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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: gmwal on August 15, 2011, 04:47:06 am

Title: OCZ vertex2 in Raid 0 question
Post by: gmwal on August 15, 2011, 04:47:06 am

Hello
I have a gigabyte X58A UD3R mobo and i am wondering where best to install the raid 0 array:  On the Intel ICH10 ports (0-5) or the gigabyte ports (ports 8-9).  I have my cdrom/dvd writer and HDD on the ICH10 ports and i am wondering if it is not better for performance sake to install the raid on the two gigabyte ports (uses a gigabyte controller)?  Will other devices on my ICH10 ports affect the array performance and if so should i use a dedicated controller like gigabytes to set up the array? conversely, should i move the cd roma and hdd onto prots 8 and 9 and set up the array on ports 0-1? Or does it even matter?  Has anyone done this with this mobo? Has anyone had any issues with the intel or gigabyte controllers or heard of issues? Cheers!

Title: Re: OCZ vertex2 in Raid 0 question
Post by: Dark Mantis on August 15, 2011, 09:06:00 am

Hi and welcome.

Personally for performance and reliability I would rearrange your drives so that the RAID0 is on SATA2_0 and SATA2_1 on the Intel ICH10R ports and configure as RAID/AHCI mode. Also leave your other hard drives on this controller. Now move the optical drives to the GSATA ports and configure as IDE mode.

If you have already configured the hard drives as IDE mode you will have to do the registry hack first before changing to RAID/AHCI mode.