Which SATA (Promise20378 vs. Via8237) to use on Asus K8V Deluxe for A64?

[RussianSensation]

Hi. I am going to build an A64 rig for my friend and the Asus board has Dual SATA:

"Dual SATA RAID
The Promise 20378 RAID controller incorporated two Serial ATA and one parallel connectors with RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 functions while the VT8237 RAID controller provides another two Serial ATA connectors for RAID 0 and RAID 1 functions. The K8V is the ideal solution to enhance hard disk performance and data backup protection without the cost of add-on cards."

Now i want to connect him a Raptor 36gb drive to one of these and I am wondering if it makes a difference to which one to connect Via or the Promise SATA headers. Also how much faster will 36gb be vs. 80gb 7200 rpm drive in real life for loading games, mp3, loading windows, etc.? What about against 2 80gb SATA drives in RAid 0? and how reliable is raid 0 in the first place in terms of data loss?

Thanx

 

[mechBgon]

The VIA-based one is not on the PCI bus, so I would consider using that one, although it does apparently have higher CPU usage. I will leave the other questions for Raptor owners.

 

[RussianSensation]

Thanx for clarifying part of my question mechBgon.

 

[Peter]

I second that opinion. Avoid using controllers on that lame 32-bit 33 MHz PCI bus whenever you can.