What chipset does the GA-965P-DS3 use for SATA RAID?

[Stumps]

as the title states...I'm looking at upgrading to a GA-965P-DS3 in the near future and I would like to know what chipset does the SATA RAID use?

I know it isn't the ICH8R, it is listed as GIGABYTE SATA2 raid, but I would like to know what it really is (eg ITE GIGARAID, Silicon Image, Promise)?

can anybody help me out?

 

[vailr]

The GA-965P-DS3 uses the JMicron chip for IDE and for SATA Raid.
An ICH8R chipset board can be found for not too much more $$. Such as the DFI INFINITY P965-S board.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136034
[Currently OOS].

 

[Stumps]

Thanks, is the performance any good? say compared to the ICH8R or Nforce3/4 Raid controller?

 

[vailr]

JMicron raid is a little slower than Intel Matrix Raid, by maybe 5% to 15%(?). Not sure about Nforce Raid.

 

[Stumps]

I'm currently using the VIA Raid 0 on my Asrock 4coredual VSTA and I'm very happy with it's performance....would the Jmicron chip perform similar to the VIA setup?

 

[vailr]

The main consideration when choosing the GA-965P-DS3 is:
Don't plan on using ANY IDE drives.
Just get a SATA optical drive and use with SATA hard drives.
Otherwise, you'll likely run into problems.

 

[Wedge1]

But why not any IDE drives? There is support for up to 2 devices...

 

[jondl]

I'm using 2 IDE optical drives in my DS3 and haven't had any problems whatsoever. I can't say the same for IDE HDs though.

 

[Wedge1]

Originally posted by: Stumps
[snip]...would the Jmicron chip perform similar to the VIA setup?

Quoting him as I would also like an answer to this question.