SATA and IDE ATA set up

Posted: 02-05-2004, 09:43 AM

Mettá

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I am about to do a complete reinstall of XP Pro on a ASUS P4PE motherboard.
The PC will be used for video editing and general use - office aps etc

My question is sort of in 2 parts

I have one 60gb IDE ATA 100 drive and a pair of 120gb SATA 133 drives
connected to the Promise SATA connectors on the motherboard.

1/ To get the best performance should the SATA drives (as RAID 0) be used to
install the OS on or simply be used for storing and working with video files
etc

2/ The Promise bios can set the drives up as mirrors striping etc or I can
do this in XP - Which is the "best way" via XP or via bios

Thanks
Mark

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Jo Bo

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Re: SATA and IDE ATA set up

Posted: 02-05-2004, 03:07 PM

"Mettá" <infoNO@SPAMmetta.org.uk> wrote in message
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> I am about to do a complete reinstall of XP Pro on a ASUS P4PE

motherboard.

> The PC will be used for video editing and general use - office aps etc
>
> My question is sort of in 2 parts
>
> I have one 60gb IDE ATA 100 drive and a pair of 120gb SATA 133 drives
> connected to the Promise SATA connectors on the motherboard.
>
> 1/ To get the best performance should the SATA drives (as RAID 0) be used

> install the OS on or simply be used for storing and working with video

files

> etc
>
> 2/ The Promise bios can set the drives up as mirrors striping etc or I can
> do this in XP - Which is the "best way" via XP or via bios
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
> --
>
>

I don't have serial ata but do have a 66 mhz buss speed promise controler
that I have 2 80 gig ata100 drives striped (raid 0). Your SATA drives should
be as fast seperatly. I would leave the 60 gb ata out, setup the two sata
drives as seperate drives. My reasons are because the ata drive may confuse
windows, it did for me on win2k with my promise controled drives (ghost and
drive image 2002 problems), 240 gb is a lot of space to manage, and finally
if you loose one drive when they are stripped you loose both. However for
best preformance strip the drives using the controler. Don't use XP to
strip the drives, the controler can do it faster.

just my 2 cents worth
Jo Bo

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Re: SATA and IDE ATA set up

Posted: 02-05-2004, 09:49 PM

I have two 160gb sata drivers setup as raid mirror, using the raid
controler, together with two ide hd's. The o/s Win2K has no problems with
this.
For Office apps, with a small amount of video editing, I have noticed no
increase in performance with the sata setup. Use the controller set up,
hardware raid, not xp software raid
my two cents
David

"Jo Bo" <jromas@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Mettá" <infoNO@SPAMmetta.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:%23jDuWy86DHA.3100@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > I am about to do a complete reinstall of XP Pro on a ASUS P4PE
> motherboard.
> > The PC will be used for video editing and general use - office aps etc
> >
> > My question is sort of in 2 parts
> >
> > I have one 60gb IDE ATA 100 drive and a pair of 120gb SATA 133 drives
> > connected to the Promise SATA connectors on the motherboard.
> >
> > 1/ To get the best performance should the SATA drives (as RAID 0) be

used

> to
> > install the OS on or simply be used for storing and working with video
> files
> > etc
> >
> > 2/ The Promise bios can set the drives up as mirrors striping etc or I

can

> > do this in XP - Which is the "best way" via XP or via bios
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mark
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> I don't have serial ata but do have a 66 mhz buss speed promise controler
> that I have 2 80 gig ata100 drives striped (raid 0). Your SATA drives

should

> be as fast seperatly. I would leave the 60 gb ata out, setup the two sata
> drives as seperate drives. My reasons are because the ata drive may

confuse

> windows, it did for me on win2k with my promise controled drives (ghost

and

> drive image 2002 problems), 240 gb is a lot of space to manage, and

finally

> if you loose one drive when they are stripped you loose both. However for
> best preformance strip the drives using the controler. Don't use XP to
> strip the drives, the controler can do it faster.
>
> just my 2 cents worth
> Jo Bo
>
>

Trent©

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Re: SATA and IDE ATA set up

Posted: 02-12-2004, 01:35 AM

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:43:33 -0000, "Mettá" <infoNO@SPAMmetta.org.uk>
wrote:

>I am about to do a complete reinstall of XP Pro on a ASUS P4PE motherboard.
>The PC will be used for video editing and general use - office aps etc
>
>My question is sort of in 2 parts
>
>I have one 60gb IDE ATA 100 drive and a pair of 120gb SATA 133 drives
>connected to the Promise SATA connectors on the motherboard.
>
>1/ To get the best performance should the SATA drives (as RAID 0) be used to
>install the OS on or simply be used for storing and working with video files
>etc

Depends a lot on who made the drives...i.e., speed and dependability.

>2/ The Promise bios can set the drives up as mirrors striping etc or I can
>do this in XP - Which is the "best way" via XP or via bios

Definitely BIOS.

Have a nice week...

Trent

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A golden retriever.

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