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Nvidia for the Raid.Connect to Sata1 and 2 connectors.
Nvidia for the single drive.Connect to Sata 3 connector.
Setup the Raid Array using the 2 drives you want.

Disable the Sil3114R in bios settings.
"Johnny B" <tester.RemoveThis@alo.com> wrote in message
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> Which configuration is better for a Raid 0 array? Using the Nvidia Nforce
> controller or the Silicon Sil3114R controller? I also want to have my 3rd
> SATA on a seperate controller. Which controllers am I better off doing
> this with? Thanks in advance.
>
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Johnny B wrote:
> I also want to have my 3rd
> SATA on a seperate controller.

Why on a separate controller? Any special reason?

RJT
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>>> I also want to have my 3rd SATA on a seperate controller.

>> Why on a separate controller? Any special reason?

> I just figured that using Raid on one and my separate SATA drive on the
> other I would get better throughput instead of trying to read and write data
> at the same time on both drives.

I'm not sure, but it might be that having them on a different controller
actually gives less throughput when copiing files from the one drive to
the RAID or vice versa.

In my case, I was using the nVidia RAID, and bought a spare 500gig 3Gb/s
SATA NCQ drive. As only the nForce controller supports the 3Gb/s, I
hooked it up on that, and it works like a charm - and much faster than
it would on the silicon controller. I also liked the fact that I didn't
need yet another driver for this.

If the drive is a SATA 1.5Gb/s one, it'll be interesting to see which
option works out faster.

RJT
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