Quote Originally Posted by C-N View Post
Ace

I notice you have an Areca raid card in your sig & wondered if you could help me out.

I am considering getting the same card as you for the reason below.

I have a couple of 80gb Hitachi's that I have run for quite a while RAID 0 with various motherboards but always have the same problem that when I get up to speed & tweaked out & happy with my rig I start getting iasator errors in the event viewer which after 2/3 days of 24/7 running crashes windows to a black screen leaving the fans running like the light is on but no ones home.

A reboot normally fixes things & in the worst case a BIOS reset & reboot get me going again.

I would like to run these & possible one or 2 more drives in RAID 0 again with my IP35 @ 462 x 8 but don't want to get the isator errors & crashes again that normally happen over about 400-425 x 8 ish with the onboard RAID controller.

Do you run your rig @ 450 x 8 24/7 with your Areca RAID setup & have you found any iasator errors in your log.

I run XP Pro BTW.

Regards

Craig.
i would highly recommend the Areca raid card...it is a superb card!

i do not run my rig 24/7 so i can't help you there...what board have you had trouble with the Intel controller when overclocking?

usually the Intel controller will drop offline around 119 to 120 Mhz when running the PCIe bus at those speeds...i am running 109 Mhz right now on the Areca card and Intel Raid chipset...i have two drives attached to each chipset...i occassionally boot into the Intel chipset to just run some benches to see the difference between the two raid solutions...areca always beats out the intel solution...BUT...i've never experienced any errors with my two Seagate 7200.10 drives on the intel chipset...have you considered trying different drives...the seagate 7200-10 with the perpendicular storage technology appears to work flawlessly using that storage technology.