mindlessss Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Hi, I'm homebrewing my first Mac (Intel E8400, 2Gb ram). I'd like to have 2-raid disk using RAID1 configuration. Which board is compatible? Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Abit IP35 PRO Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindlessss Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 No RAID in your hackintoshes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 look for boards having the sil 4723 "steelvine" controller like the asus p5w dh (ez-backup). it´s not the fastest but works with osx. see my solution in my sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Shoe Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I'd experiment with the Silicon Image cards as suggested by the user before me. They're great as you can get them for under $25 in most cases. I know monoprice.com has a lot of them for sale, both PCI and PCI-E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 peach os. can you use the raid drives as boot drives? If not, does it atleast work with little moddification.. i mean.. like just plug them into ez raid ports 1 and 2.. configure in bios.. then set up in raid utility in leopard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 peach os. can you use the raid drives as boot drives? If not, does it atleast work with little moddification.. i mean.. like just plug them into ez raid ports 1 and 2.. configure in bios.. then set up in raid utility in leopard? yes, you can use them as boot drive. the steelvine is a real hardware controller - no drivers needed. plug them into the orange ports and set the jumper for ez backup to the right position. now boot into bios and set the asus ez backup option change to "enabled". this option is used to run once the recognition of the new setting. now boot to os x an you will see a new drive - no more settings needed. only issue: it is not as fast as other hardware controllers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 thank you for the info peach. At the moment i am taking all the data of my 2 320gb seagates, i plan to put them in raid 0. maybe someday i will get another western digital raptor and raid 0 them if i think it is worth it. edit: just raid-0'd a pair of seagate 320's. Went from like 80mb/s in the first test to 140. I am pretty impressed. What is ur bench for those drive Peach? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdelano Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 What about Intel ICH8R southbridges? I just bought a DFI Infinity P965-S and want to run my 2x300GB Seagates in one 600GB RAID partition. Am I going to have any luck or am I f'ed? -sdelano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 no solution yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karaakeha1 Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Hi, I'm homebrewing my first Mac (Intel E8400, 2Gb ram). I'd like to have 2-raid disk using RAID1 configuration. Which board is compatible? Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Abit IP35 PRO Thank you! Only board for RAID on mac asus p5w DH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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