Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe RAID setup with overclocking

[phillik747]

I am helping a friend build a sweet rig and he is using an Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe mobo. He has a total of 6 HDD: 2 raptors for the OS in RAID 0, and 4 300 GB Maxtor not set up yet. My question is he wants to overclock the system but we don?t know which SATA ports to use and if they all are locked or not. Ie:

• Setup 1:
  • SATA Silicon ports:
    Port 1: empty
    Port 2: empty
    Prot 3: Raptor
    Port 4: Raptor
  • SATA Nvidia ports:
    Port1-4: Maxtor HDD?s probably going to be in raid 0 or raid 10
  
  Setup 2:
  • SATA Silicon ports:
    Port 1-4 Maxtor HDD?s probably going to be in raid 0 or raid 10
  • SATA Nvidia Ports:
    Port 1-2: empty
    Port 3-4: Raptors

It isn?t vital that they are setup like this, it?s just a idea. If any of you have a better way or ideas please post them. Also if the Maxtors dont NEED to be in riad it just would be really nice for larger data movement.

Ill try and post some pics when I?m finished.
Thank you,
Kyle

Friends rig:
Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe
AMD 64 x2 4400+
PQI Turbo (cant remember the model #)
MSI 7800
Danger Dan liquid cooling
Lian li v1000 case

 

[imported_deputycag]

I have as similar rig using same board and chips. I am using 2 74gb Raptors on the Nvidia ports in a RAID 1 config. This is were OS and important apps are installed. On the Silicon I have 2 Maxtor 300 GB Raid 0 for games, photoshop and images etc. I have my system overclocked and don't think the Raid setup has held me back.

 

[Doctorweir]

Sounds good...I'd prefer setup 2, though. But as there are still rumors, that the nForce SATA ports 3&4 are not locked (which I couldn't confirm) I'd put the raptors to 1&2.
The SI controller should be independent, as it's PCI (which is lockable in BIOS).
Also it supports RAID5, which should be sweet with the 4 big disks 😀

 

[phillik747]

Thank you deputycag and doctorweir for the replies! Time to get to work.

Kyle