Which 120gig 8mb cache SATA drives are best for RAID (on Gigaraid controller)?
I'm looking to configure SATA RAID (striped) array for my Gigabyte
GA-KVT800 Pro motherboard (Via K8T800 chipset for Athlon 64 with a Gigaraid IT8212 chipset). So far the only real experience I've had with the Gigaraid controller was on a Gigabyte GA-7N400PRO2 board on which we put two identical Western Digital 80gig 8mb cache drives (PATA) in a striped RAID config. The user had a corruption problem and reformatted the drive (as an attempt to fix that corruption) but it never worked properly after that - removing each drive and testing them individually detected a repairable sector problem but the concern was that there was a sync problem with the drives of some sort Looking at the Western Digital site we found mention of an obscure problem with acoustic management functions switching in for one drive and not the other potentially causing problems and a "BIOS update" to fix the problem that seemed to do nothing (but we've no had the problem since then on that system, so far at least anyway; the BIOS upgrade seemed inconclusive as we think the drives had that BIOS anyway). Of course I'd like to avoid that kind of problem with my system - currently I'm wondering what drives are best to use on my board's SATA array. I want to get 2 identical drives, 120gig in size with 8mb of cache and 3 year warranty on them, my priorities in order of importance a 1. Reliability (really important but I will be backing up all data daily to another volume) 2. performance (sustained tfr and seek) 3. low thermal output (my cooling's ok but I tend to like cooler drives) 4. acoustic performance (it's nice to have them quiet but not as important as reliability) Can anyone recommend which drives in that category tend to best suit those attributes? I was tending towards the Seagate ST3120026AS but I have seen some mention of RAID writing problems with them (I'm not entirely sure about this though). Thanks DT |
"Davo-CC" wrote in message ... I'm looking to configure SATA RAID (striped) array for my Gigabyte GA-KVT800 Pro motherboard (Via K8T800 chipset for Athlon 64 with a Gigaraid IT8212 chipset). So far the only real experience I've had with the Gigaraid controller was on a Gigabyte GA-7N400PRO2 board on which we put two identical Western Digital 80gig 8mb cache drives (PATA) in a striped RAID config. The user had a corruption problem and reformatted the drive (as an attempt to fix that corruption) but it never worked properly after that - removing each drive and testing them individually detected a repairable sector problem but the concern was that there was a sync problem with the drives of some sort Looking at the Western Digital site we found mention of an obscure problem with acoustic management functions switching in for one drive and not the other potentially causing problems and a "BIOS update" to fix the problem that seemed to do nothing (but we've no had the problem since then on that system, so far at least anyway; the BIOS upgrade seemed inconclusive as we think the drives had that BIOS anyway). Of course I'd like to avoid that kind of problem with my system - currently I'm wondering what drives are best to use on my board's SATA array. I want to get 2 identical drives, 120gig in size with 8mb of cache and 3 year warranty on them, my priorities in order of importance a 1. Reliability (really important but I will be backing up all data daily to another volume) 2. performance (sustained tfr and seek) Get 80GB SATA WDC Raptors. |
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