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2 SATA RAID 0 drives + 2 SATA RAID 0 drives, 2 SATA DVD drives

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alkolkin

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I have an ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard.
It has the capability of connecting 4 SATA drives via the Southbridge chipset and connecting 4 SATA drives via the Silicon Image controller.

I have two 74Gb Raptor drives that I want to hook in Raid 0 and I have two 34 GB Raptor drives that I also want to hook up as Raid 0.

I have two Plextor SATA double layer DVD drives that I want to hook up, not as Raid of course.


Questions:
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Which drive should be the boot drive, the 34GB or the 75GB?
To which controller should the boot drive be connected?
To which controller should the other drive be connected?
To which controller or controllers should the two DVD drives be connected?
Which will be Master drives and which slaves?

Assumptions:
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Hook up each Raid 0 configuration to separate controller
34GB Raid 0 drive is Boot drive hooked up to Southbridge chipset
Each DVD onto different controller.

Your help would be appreciated!

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Albert L Kolkin
 
Provided the controller can support the cdroms while in raid mode with hard drives attached I would suggest putting the two 36's on the first controller with your optical drives on the same controller. This is your boot drive as well as all apps that do not need raid performance. Dvd software, office, etc etc. The second controller should get the 2 74gb raptors and here is where you should put your more taxing apps. Games, 3d modeling software...etc etc.

Also, I hope you have a really good power supply becuase when you add vid card and other parts tot he mix this setup is going to draina lot of power.
 
I have posted this question on many different sites. All agree that the Southbridge is the fastest SATA and that there is no Master/Slave relationship in SATA.

However for everything else there is no concensus. Many point out that (1) the maxtor drives do not support the faster speed of the new Southbridge so that it does not matter to which controller they are attached, (2) it MAY make it easier to manage if each Raid drive is on a separate controller, and (3) that the Maxtor 75 GB is much faster so it should be the boot drive.

It sounds like this would be a good setup to test for more definitive analysis. It may not be highly technical to some, but I am not sure that anyone knows the answer for sure. I have written to ASUS as well.
 
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