Asus Drive Xpert

[sgrinavi]

I'm setting up an Asus P5Q-E based system with WD 640AAKK for the boot / software and a pair of the new WD 1TB black in raid1 for data. The board has two 'special' SATA ports that are for theAsus Drive Xpert, propriatary RAID,

I tested it and it seems very slow with the RAID running at 30 MB/sec, both drives on a standard SATA port scoot along at over 100 MB/sec.

SO

1. Am I doing something wrong witht the Drive Xpert, does it have to prep the drives or something?

2. If I go with the Intel Storage Matrix does AHCI work with it or do I have to use the RAID drivers?

 

[myocardia]

I would have sworn that you had to use AHCI, to be able to run RAID. Were you running the drives in AHCI mode, or "IDE" mode?

 

[sgrinavi]

Originally posted by: myocardia
I would have sworn that you had to use AHCI, to be able to run RAID. Were you running the drives in AHCI mode, or "IDE" mode?

My boot drive, the single 640, is currently in IDE. The pair of TB drives are on the Drive Expert ports. I would have to move them to standard SATA ports and the select RAID in the BIOS (from what I have seen).

I am just wondering if there is any significant performance impact from using the ASUS version of RAID as opposed to the intel matrix.