RE: Raid and Serial ATA Question

[ThumpR777]

I have not seen first hand any of the new Serial ATA boards, and the manufacturer information is unclear so I need your help. I am looking for a new KT400 or Nforce board with Serial ATA, but cannot find if the RAID available is on the Serial Controller, or just on the regular IDE ? Many of them advertise RAID, but it does not say specifically SERIAL RAID. Are all Serial ATA boards RAID automatically, and if not, which MBoards have Serial ATA RAID enabled ? Your help would be appreciated.

 

[First]

Well, any motherboard (like ASUS's A7N8X nForce2 SPP motherboard) with a Silicon Image 3112A Serial ATA chip supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays. However, this is only with Serial ATA drives. I believe the 3112A does not support IDE RAID. Promise's PDC20376 Serial ATA chip may support both Serial ATA RAID and parallel (IDE) ATA RAID.

Go here for some good tutorials on Serial ATA, IDE, and other such technologies. Go to Storage Review's excellent RAID guide for even more info.