Which Chipset for RAID on DFI LanPart UT NF4 SLI Expert

[bmck]

I posted this on the hard drives forum but had no response. I wondered if any here might be able to help?

I've had this board for eighteen months now running a WD SATA 74GB Raptor HD. It had always been my intention of having a go at running RAID (never done it before) and am about to take the plunge with a second 74GB Raptor.

While downloading all the latest BIOS, drivers etc in preparation I see there seems to be the option of two raid drivers (and chips) with this board:

nForce4 - NVIDIA Raid
Silicon Image Raid

Which should I use - does it matter? Is one preferable to the other? Would anyone who's running Raid on one of these boards mind pointing me in the right direction?

Thanks

 

[mdjmcnally]

Use the Nvidia RAID as built into the NF4 chipset. The silicon image is sitting on the PCI bus and so has to share bandwidth with other PCI devices.

 

[bmck]

Cheers mckmcnally - that was just what I wanted!