Mobo recommendation

ShivianShivian Australia
edited March 2004 in Hardware
Hey guys,

I've got a bit of a problem on deciding what to do. What I want is a setup with a couple of 74GB raptors in RAID-0 as well as a couple of 250GB drives as data drives. Now that obviously takes 4 SATA ports. I'm trying to figure out how would be the best way of setting this up.

First priority is that the raptors must have no problems with bandwidth (so that basically eliminates putting them on a PCI SATA RAID card). I'd preferably have no hdd's at all taking up PCI BW at all cause if I am running heavy network traffic through PCI plus SB Audigy and so on so if I want to do a network transfer I don't want the PCI to have to split between the hdd's and the network card (hence slowing down a lot).

Second priority (or more of a preference) is that the board be for a 32-bit athlon chip (I'd prefer to just use my 2400+ at this stage and maybe upgrade to a Barton 3200+ later). Guess the rest is all icing but GB lan onboard would be nice but non-essential.

As far as I can see, I have yet to see an Athlon board that has 4 SATA ports. Anyone got suggestions? Or for something like would I have to go 64-bit for a board that can do that?

Cheers,
Shiv

Comments

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    Your best bet may be a dual athlon board, which have 64-bit PCI slots. Then you can get a good 64-bit PCI RAID card.
  • ShivianShivian Australia
    edited March 2004
    I was thinking it might come to that... those dual boards can operate with just one chip in them can't they? I was thinking to just get the drives setup and run it single processor until I can afford the 2nd.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    Yes, they can run with a single CPU.
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