VIA KT880 chipset

[Marshmallowman]

Well here some reviews of SATA RAID controllers both integrated and offboard

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/controllers-raid0.html

[rugger]

Originally posted by rylan
Kurt, I'm pretty sure my SATA raid1 setup is hardware controled through the 8327 southbridge. I have lower cpu utiliation with it than using the silicon image sata controler. I know windows has "software' raid, but I'm not sure how this can be software when the array is enabled before windows loads and I never set up additional raid support through windows.

No, the software raid we are talking about is that the Raid Crad BIOS and the windows drivers perform all striping operations, rather then a dedicated controller on the card.

This is not a problem for raid-0/1, but may be a problem if you want to do raid-5, and not pay a heavy CPU price.

[bsdgeek]

Originally posted by Gurm
Ok, see this cracks me up. So I was poking around the reviews of the SiS748 chipset, and came across article after article saying things like "this chipset underperforms" and "this chipset isn't as fast as the VIA or nForce".

But MULTIPLE hardware sites have reported that EVERY NFORCE CHIPSET currently in production can be crashed outright by loading it up with too many concurrent IDE transfers. That's right, set 20 large file copies going at once, and the chipset shits the bed and bluescreens!

VIA apparently can be FORCED to corrupt data by doing much the same thing.

That says to me that the chipset is DEFECTIVE.

- Gurm

Wow, that's pretty serious. Not that I don't believe you, but do you have any links?

[Chrono_Wanderer]

This makes me laugh...

· V-Link 533MB/sec high bandwidth North/South Bridge interconnect

[Gurm]

Rugger,

Erm, the reviews I read were, IIRC, at OCWorkbench and ... uhh, I forget where else. They weren't specific. They just said that without fail their "multiple concurrent file copy" benchmark stress test crashed VIA and nForce chipsets but not SiS.

In my own experience, the nForce was super-buggy at moving data around. NOTHING else could be done with the machine while it was copying files.

- Gurm