raid and dual channel ram

Bleeding-RoseBleeding-Rose
edited July 2003 in Hardware
does anybody know a board, that supports raid (0+1) AND dual channel ram? it seems to me, that the Via Chipsets only support raid and the nvidia chipsets (nForce) only support dual Channel Ram. tell me, if i'm wrong.

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  • KometeKomete Member
    edited July 2003
    ahh would'nt the abit nf7-s do both. I know it does raid0 and I thought all nforce 2 boards did the dual channel memory thingy maboby.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited July 2003
    heres the link http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=6
    "and features new dual 400MHz DDR memory controllers that deliver up to a 50% increase in bandwidth.

    and we established here it does support sata raid http://www.icronticforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1466
  • Bleeding-RoseBleeding-Rose
    edited July 2003
    the problem is: it only SUPPORTS raid. there is no controller on board. so i need to upgrade an additional controller card and i heard that they are not as good as an on board controller
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited July 2003
    Well I was useing a promise card up to about a week ago when one of my harddrives finnaly went out. (bad power connection on the harddrive). I had used the same 2 harddrives on another mobo that had a highpoint controller on it and I can tell you there was no difference in performance. The only difference I could tell was the raid card took 3 secounds longer checking the array. It bench marked exactly the same.

    I always thought it was the other way around with the controller cards giving better performance, but know I think it's just the same.
  • Bleeding-RoseBleeding-Rose
    edited July 2003
    hmmm, sounds good. ah, it's so difficult
  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Sorry to disappoint guys, but the NF7-S has a Silicon Image SATA RAID controller built in as I am running 2 Seagate Cudas in a RAID-0 now and have been for months. I also originally bought an extra pata-sata converter and ran several different PATA drives in RAID - 0 and RAID - 1 configurations. All ran great and performance was as expected.
  • Bleeding-RoseBleeding-Rose
    edited July 2003
    i want to run more 3 disks in raid 0+1. does it support this mode?
  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Since it's only a 2 channel comtroller NO. It's either RAID-0 or RAID-1 but not dual level. With SATA being one device per channel you'd have to have a 4 channel controller to run a 1 over 0 RAID.
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