drumsonly2002 Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Looking at the Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1430SA and noticed no new drivers for Win 7, only XP. Will this card work with the EVGA X58 running Win 7? Does a card with buffer memory help,of much difference? Any card recommendations? Looking through the myrid of choices with raid cards is making my head spin, lots of cards with bad comments in reviews. This card though, appears good quality. Thanks for all comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypilot Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Why do you need a plug-in card? Looks like that MOBO has raid built in??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumsonly2002 Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 It has on board raid, but informed on board raid uses CUP cycles. Apparently better data transfer. My question, how much better? The video numbers seem very high. Soft Ware vs Hard Ware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 JV is using an Adaptec RAID card on Win7 64bit with no problems. I am using Vista64 bit - with the 1430SA - and I doubt you would have difficulty with Win7. With regard to Software / Firmware / Hardware RAID - it os true that standalone Hardware RAID offers some performance benefits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumsonly2002 Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 That's good news. buying my computer a piece at a time, trying to get the right parts and info. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypilot Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Yes would agree that hardware raid is better - I thought on-board raid is/was hardware? Do I have the wrong understanding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Software RAID = (disaster) - most CPU intensive - no performance gain for FSX with Striping (RAID0) Big performance hit in the CPU department. My understanding is that onboard RAID is "firmware" RAID - so not a full implementation, but close to. A standalone card has (should have) its own independent controller, and (in the case of the Adaptec) loads its own BIOS dependant on what configuration of drives you have. The driver simply sees a device - and the card does all the work .... That is in theory......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
))i7((SLI-Fire Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 I have 4 x 120gig OCZ Vertex SSD's on Raid 0 on an Highpoint Rocket Raid 3520LF 8 Channel PCI-E to SATA Raid Controller, which is giving me about 780MB/sec Read. I have just purchased a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i SGL Single Pack, PCI-e 2.0 x8 8 Port SAS/SATA Raid Controller to replace the Highpoint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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