ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

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does anyone know if RAID-0 will run faster under ICH10R or the speeding HD connected to the two black ports? since i couldn't set up the RAID0 correctly on ICH10R, i used the speeding HD with two velociraptors, and it seems a bit slow. i'm only getting about 131mb/s average transfer rate.

and second, how do i set up a RAID on the ICH10R? when i set the SATA to RAID in the BIOS, it seems like the boot up gets frozen during the POST. i tried putting the RAID drivers from the CD on a flash drive also and it won't work. i formatted the flash drive to FAT format. tried this on BIOS 1501 and ket's modded 1307. does anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?

I run Raid0 and I'm getting about 125MB/S on my WD 7200PRM drives so I would say your raptor scores are low.
I use Vista and required NO raid drivers to install.
If your using XP try getting teh updated chipsets drivers from Intel they might help.
If you have a spare drive about you could alwayd install the OS on it then creat the raid in XP and migrate the OS drive to the raid and it should be good. A few extra steps but it will work. Or you could send me those raptors and I can test them to make sure there not faulty

Here are the links to the UPDATED raid drivers

32bit ALL OS
64bit ALL OS