Anyone Using The 875P Chipset And SATA?

[The Weed]

The resident gurus of PC computers for PT LE (QuickDraw and Allen Hallada) have replied in another thread for which I again thank them here. But I was wondering if anyone has actually and successfully used the following combination for PT LE and a Digi 001 with either 5.3 or 6.1.

I'm looking to build a new system using the Intel D875PBZ motherboard with the 875P chipset, 800 mHz FSB, GigaBit LAN on the northbridge and RAID controller on the southbridge, using 1 gb of dual channel DDR and a P4 3.0 CPU.
System drive: WD 40gb 8mb cache 7,200 RPM drive.
Audio drive: WD 36gb 8mb cache 10,000 RPM Raptor drive.
Storage drive: External 80 gb drive with one partition to ghost the OS to and one partition to copy my .pts files to.

I'd especially appreciate any word about the Raptor SATA drive and how to configure it. I read one thread that said you had to run it in RAID 0+1 configuration, even though there is only one drive on the RAID controller, to "fool" it and get it to work with PT LE. Seems funny to have to do that.

Digidesign has yet to officially approve the 875P chipset for the 001, although they have for the 002. Here is Tech Support's reply to my question about that: "The 875 chipset seems to work well with 001s and Mbox. However, we have
not completed testing so they are not listed yet on the compato docs."

Any information is appreciated, and thanks in advance.

Cheers,

[IntelDoc]

Weed,
that was me with the foolin' I run the Asus A7V8X board with a 40 gig drive for the OS and App. An 80 gig drive for storage and backup, and a 80 gig serial ATA 150. It works very well so far. In reality though, the 80 gig backup drive is faster than the serial drive by about 6mbps. Not that much but it is faster for some reason. I run AMD so the Intl thing I cannot help ya on. But the ATA as a single drive does work.

Send me an e-mail and I will try to help ya with whatever I can.

-Doc

[The Weed]

Doc,

Is your SATA drive a 10,000 RPM Raptor? I thought they only came in 36 gb size for now.

I haven't put the system together yet, waiting for some checks to come in. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] I was trying to find out if people had successfully upgraded to the new chipset and drives. I guess you have. If I run in to any trouble, I'll definitely take you up on your offer of email assistance. Much appreciated.

Cheers,

[IntelDoc]

NO it is not SCSI. ATA 150..... 7200rpm though. It is still fast, just with a test that I run on it, it was not AS fast as the other drive for some reason...

Good luck,
Doc

[The Weed]

Thanks Doc,

The Western Digital Raptor drive I'm talking about is not SCSI, it's Serial ATA 150 but at 10,000 RPM instead of 7,200 and still has the 8 mb cache. Lots of throughput for audio and it has a 5 year warranty. Info here:

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/WD360GD.asp

Cheers,

[Haigbabe]

Originally posted by The Weed:
Thanks Doc,

The Western Digital Raptor drive I'm talking about is not SCSI, it's Serial ATA 150 but at 10,000 RPM instead of 7,200 and still has the 8 mb cache. Lots of throughput for audio and it has a 5 year warranty. Info here:

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/WD360GD.asp

Cheers,

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">The reviews I have been reading on SATA drives suggest that there is still some way to go yet. They still aren't quite up to the speed of good PATA drives overall. (The recent review I read said that one manufacturer had dropped the line entirely.)

The next six months should tell the story.

btw the machine you intend building sounds great. If it's only for PT though, you may re-consider the Athlon path and save a few shekels. [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]

Best regards,

Haigbabe