What is the difference between...

[AMDPwred]

EPOX EP-8K7A and EPOX EP-8K7A+ other than $28 from newegg.com? Thanks for any replies!

 

[Mungla]

The 8K7A+ has an onboard RAID controller. Where as, the 8K7A only has the Highpoint Ultra100 controller.

 

[AMDPwred]

What's RAID? I have that on my ASUS A7V133 now but I don't use it.

(using an EPoX for a friends PC)

 

[UselessInfo]

Redundant Array of Independent Devices
or
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Devices

 

[AMDPwred]

<< Redundant Array of Independent Devices
or
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Devices >>



Thanks for your useless info🙂 (His screen name)

What does it do?

 

[LXi]

8K7A+ has HP370 IDE RAID controller, 8K7A does not have any kind of HighPoint controllers on it.

 

[nortexoid]

asus doesn't make that board w/ onboard RAID, as far as i know..they use a promise hdd controller though for no apparent reason other than offering two more ide channels for four more devices...

u can hack it into a fastrak 100 RAID though...so i've read.

RAID is a redundant array of inexpensive disks...u can &quot;stripe&quot; two disks so they're recognized as a single disk...the benefits of striping (not mirroring which u can also do with RAID) is increased throughput, but not access time..theoretically double...

 

[Guilty]

The A7V133 actually supports RAID 0 or 1, but not 0+1. The A7V had a promise controller that only acted as an extra IDE interface, it was upgraded for the KT133A board.

AMDPwred: You might as well get the 8K7A+ in my opinion, the cost isnt great and you can always use the 2 extra interfaces for regular ATA operation if software RAID isnt your thing.