As many of you know, the reference 680i board (eVGA, BFG, XFX, etc.) suffers from a very serious problem in which SATA drives can experience data corruption. The problem has been acknowledged by nVidia and by eVGA, is currently being worked on furiously by them (and probably others), and is causing quite a stir on the eVGA forum, where this bug has been confirmed by >300 posts.

An important question is whether the ASUS 680i boards (P5N32-E SLI and Striker Extreme) suffer from this same bug. The bug results in an event log full of disk errors, BSODs, WinXP corruption, seems to affect SATA drives, seems to be worse with SATA drives in RAID configurations, and seems to be made worse by using memory speeds faster than ~800 MHz and possibly by CPU overclocking.

I've searched quite a few forums for an evidence of the ASUS board suffering from this problem and haven't found any real evidence that it does. If you have an ASUS 680i-based board, please post here telling us if you have experienced the SATA/RAID bug or not.

Thanks!