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Old 03-22-07   #1 (permalink)
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Iam going with 2 seagate 7200.10 3.0g sata hard drives. But i have two options i think 1. via raid setup or promise . I am running an asus av8 deluxe motherboard. Ihavent a clue which i should be running. ALL help would be great and which raid setup is best
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i think the promise controller is better but i'm not all that sure about it. i think the only way to tell for sure is to test it.
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If the Promise controller isn't integrated, the VIA should do better. If it is, the Promise should do better.

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the promise is and so is via i think i have two red and two brown sata connectors on my mb.
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yeah then i would go with the promise.
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I think i will. I will let you know how it goes this first time setting up raid.
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I have raid installed works great . I went with raid0 . I have not tried loading any games yetbut so far it is sweet. Ialso went with via setup and windows vista SO reps to you guys
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