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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Mark on October 05, 2009, 05:43:21 pm

Title: Best way to spread 4 SATA drives across six controller ports?
Post by: Mark on October 05, 2009, 05:43:21 pm

The GA-P55-UD6 comes with 6 SATA ports controlled by the P55 chipset.

I've got four identical drives that I was planning to use for some sort of RAID array.  I plugged them into ports 0, 1, 2, and 3.

I'm wondering if I wouldn't get better throughput if I picked a different configuration, like 0, 2, 3, and 4.

Does anybody know anything about that?

Mark

Title: Re: Best way to spread 4 SATA drives across six controller ports?
Post by: oggmonster on October 05, 2009, 06:18:22 pm

As far as i'm aware 0,1,2 & 3 will be the best configuration  :)

Title: Re: Best way to spread 4 SATA drives across six controller ports?
Post by: Pottypete on October 05, 2009, 06:22:16 pm

Good read here, http://i.gizmodo.com/5203952/giz-explains-what-a-raid-hard-drive-array-is-and-why-you-need-one

18 hdds secure deletion, not bullet proof in case your wondering :o http://www.hardocp.com/news/2009/03/21/50_bmg_api_vs_18_hard_drives
Raise the energy. Lol

Title: Re: Best way to spread 4 SATA drives across six controller ports?
Post by: runn3R on October 06, 2009, 02:16:57 pm

Quote from: Pottypete on October 05, 2009, 06:22:16 pm

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18 hdds secure deletion, not bullet proof in case your wondering :o http://www.hardocp.com/news/2009/03/21/50_bmg_api_vs_18_hard_drives
Raise the energy. Lol

Pottypete, it's the most unusual way of data wiping :P I have ever seen. Thanks for the link mate, I had a lot of fun watching it