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Memo
06-24-2002, 11:41 PM
Is it JUST as fast to have my hard drive connected to the raid controller and booting through that as if it were to have the hard drive connected to a regular IDE slot on the motherboard? Or is there some performance loss by it having to go through the controller. I'm using Win XP and a WD 80GB Special Edition (w/ the 8mb cache) hard drive. Mobo is MSI K3 Ultra-ARU.

Bires
06-25-2002, 08:49 AM
...my fastrak card takes about 7-10 seconds to allow all the harddrives in the array to spin up. So, boot time is quite a bit higher.