SATA raid

[Tony Alfrey]

Vu Pham wrote:
> Currently my home PC has a scsi raid controller with 4 scsi drives set
> up in raid 0 mode in order to get the highest performance. ( yes,  I
> have backed the system up pretty often ).
> 
> The problem is these scsi drives are pretty loudy at night when there is
> no background noise.
> 
> I want to replace these scsi drives by two SATA drives with raid 0. 
> 
> For performance, is a built-in sata raid controller as good as an
> pci-express one ? If the difference is 8 out of 10 it will be fine to
> me, but if it is something 5 or 6 out of 10, then I would consider
> looking for an external one.
> 
> My motherboard is Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3.

This MB has SATA II interface.  But the spec says *two* ports with SATA 
II RAID at 3 Gb/s.  So if you want only two SATA drives, they should be 
as fast as that with a PCI-E SATA II card.



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Tony Alfrey
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