ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

[CERO]

Tomorrow I will get my P5K deluxe, is the Onboard LAN ( thought it was the Marvell) good? I really have no clue, or should I buy a seperate network LAN card.

[PepsiDude]

Hi all, I have a somewhat newbie Raid question. I also posted this over on the Asus forums, but thought I would post here too. As well wasn't sure I should make a new post, or keep on topic of this thread since this is the mobo I'm running.

Any way I have a simple 2 drive Raid 0 setup in my system, everything works great so far. But was curious when I was poking around in the Intel Matrix Manager program, it shows both my drives operating at "Transfer mode 1", which is Sata 150, and I bought Sata 300 drives. Now maybe this is the way raid works? Or should they be operating at Transfer Mode 2, which might squeak out a bit better performance. Thanks for any info.

[mariniam]

Hi all, I have a somewhat newbie Raid question. I also posted this over on the Asus forums, but thought I would post here too. As well wasn't sure I should make a new post, or keep on topic of this thread since this is the mobo I'm running.

Any way I have a simple 2 drive Raid 0 setup in my system, everything works great so far. But was curious when I was poking around in the Intel Matrix Manager program, it shows both my drives operating at "Transfer mode 1", which is Sata 150, and I bought Sata 300 drives. Now maybe this is the way raid works? Or should they be operating at Transfer Mode 2, which might squeak out a bit better performance. Thanks for any info.

Don't know if it should be running on transfer mode 1 or 2 but I'll check out what Matrix Manager reports for my raid0 setup when I go home tonight. I cant see why any raid setup should limit the speed from 3gb/s to 1,5gb/s though.

[Ace-a-Rue]

I have a simple 2 drive Raid 0 setup in my system, everything works great so far. But was curious when I was poking around in the Intel Matrix Manager program, it shows both my drives operating at "Transfer mode 1", which is Sata 150, and I bought Sata 300 drives. Now maybe this is the way raid works? Or should they be operating at Transfer Mode 2, which might squeak out a bit better performance. Thanks for any info.

some drives have jumper configurations to change betweem mode 1 and 2...seagate's 7200.10 series comes to mind...it has a small white jumper that has to be removed in order to put it in SATA 300 mode.

[PepsiDude]

some drives have jumper configurations to change betweem mode 1 and 2...seagate's 7200.10 series comes to mind...it has a small white jumper that has to be removed in order to put it in SATA 300 mode.

Thanks man, will check that out when I get home!

[PepsiDude]

Tomorrow I will get my P5K deluxe, is the Onboard LAN ( thought it was the Marvell) good? I really have no clue, or should I buy a seperate network LAN card.

Well it has dual LAN; Realtek, and Marvell. I'm using the Marvell. And it seems to work ok for me. But I'm just a home user with limited transferring files around between computers.