RAID what?

[vitaminc]

I guess maybe my screenshot of what happens to an nVraid at 4x falls on deaf eyes.
Edit: but if you've got the dough to blow, i've got a controller that can handle it.

ooo ya
didnt see that.
a picture is worth 1000 words.

4 drive RAID0 is stupid anyway as you will at least need a dedicated PCI-X 66Mhz slot to feed the bandwidth. Most AMD overclocking motherboards suck for a decent RAID storage system.

[butter_fry]

notice the RED stripe pci-x 133 8way SAS/SATA. no problems there with the exact same drives.

[vitaminc]

notice the RED stripe pci-x 133 8way SAS/SATA. no problems there with the exact same drives.

Ya, but the thing is onboard controller will only have enough bw for 2-3 drives of mediocre performance raptors, so any RAID w/ 3 drives or below should be fine.

its about sequential/burst read/write speed and bus bandwidth. that's what sucks for AMD based deskstop/workstation motherboards; not a lot of PCI-X options available.

Or in the language of overclockers, its like putting DDR2 1000Mhz memory into a motherboard with 133Mhz FSB. It ain't gonna work.