MatthewF01
Senior member
OK, so for a good few months now, Ive been a happy owner of a Chaintech 7NJS Nforce2 motherboard. This is the one that comes decked out with a million features and extras.
One thing this board supports is SATA RAID. There are 2 SATA ports and one PATA port on the RAID channel. I suppose that one day when there is a nice fast cheap SATA drive on the market, I would buy 2, and configure my FIRST EVER Raid setup.
So lets begin with Question 1:
-What do i need to know about my first RAID? And using SATA at that..
Now, SATA looks like really exciting stuff. However it seems that its not achieving the 150mb/s throughput which its marketed to. This is due to the fact that it runs across the 33mhz PCI bus, correct? And when its built into the board like mine, that holds true even more.
[Not like my drives today are any faster: my main HDD is an IBM Deskstar 40GB 5400rpm which is always on the verge of being filled, and a 6gb 'junker' 7200rpm I pulled from a friends pc he was throwing out]
Now, my next questions:
-Given that the PCI bus is limiting the drives transfers, and the fact that on my NF2 board I have an AGP/PCI lock, can I increase the frequency of the PCI clk to balance out the throughput a little better? Would it achieve better transfers?
-Would I experience disk data corruption at a certain point? I am running no PCI devices, and a Leadtek ti4200 128mb on the AGP.
Anybody have any theories, supporting/destroying thoughts?
Thanks!
One thing this board supports is SATA RAID. There are 2 SATA ports and one PATA port on the RAID channel. I suppose that one day when there is a nice fast cheap SATA drive on the market, I would buy 2, and configure my FIRST EVER Raid setup.
So lets begin with Question 1:
-What do i need to know about my first RAID? And using SATA at that..
Now, SATA looks like really exciting stuff. However it seems that its not achieving the 150mb/s throughput which its marketed to. This is due to the fact that it runs across the 33mhz PCI bus, correct? And when its built into the board like mine, that holds true even more.
[Not like my drives today are any faster: my main HDD is an IBM Deskstar 40GB 5400rpm which is always on the verge of being filled, and a 6gb 'junker' 7200rpm I pulled from a friends pc he was throwing out]
Now, my next questions:
-Given that the PCI bus is limiting the drives transfers, and the fact that on my NF2 board I have an AGP/PCI lock, can I increase the frequency of the PCI clk to balance out the throughput a little better? Would it achieve better transfers?
-Would I experience disk data corruption at a certain point? I am running no PCI devices, and a Leadtek ti4200 128mb on the AGP.
Anybody have any theories, supporting/destroying thoughts?
Thanks!
