Western Digital (WD) Raptors and VIA SATA RAID controller, match made in heaven?

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 [Internet] Western Digital (WD) Raptors and VIA SATA RAID controller, match made in heaven? September 5th, 2005 VIA Arena - Display Article The system used for...

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 [Brandon Paddock's Blog] Emergency back-up underway: My primary system disk is actually two WD Raptors in RAID 0 that have been fantastic. My main storage disks are two Maxtor 16MB cache 300GB SATA drives in RAID 0. 

 [Anandtech.com] AnandTech: Price Guides, July 2005: Storage: Another drive that has lead the drop in cost per GB on our SATA drives is the Seagate SATA 250GB 7200.8 [RTPE: ST3250823AS] The 7200.8 isn't the cheapest 250GB drive right now, but if you click on the RTPE link and scroll down, you'll see the cost per GB is still very competitive. We have been watching this drive very closely, and again this drive takes our pick as the SATA II all around drive.

 [Chovy.com] <Chovy's Blog/>: Install SATA hdd on ASUS A8V Deluxe Motherboard: So I had to buy a floppy drive :-( Then went to asus web site, and found the Via Raid drive (7mb) zip file and extracted it to c:\temp on my win2k box. There is a utility in there somewhere called "MakeDisk.exe", just run that with a floppy in your floppy drive, and it'll create the driver disk.

 [Techspot.com] Adaptec 1210SA and 2x WD 74gig Raptors - TechSpot Troubleshooting: Thanks Nodsu, I forgot to mention that I have subsequently deleted the array and as soon as I connect the SATA drives to the controller and reboot I get this "waiting for controller" message.

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Posted at September 06, 2005 01:01 PM