DS3P (the new one) - RAID support?

[Robbie G]

On the Scan website's specs for the DS3 and the DS3P it says that the DS3 supports RAID, but says "N/A" for RAID under the DS3P. Can someone clarify whether the DS3P supports RAID or not, as I certainly wouldn't pay extra just for crossfire support and 1333FSB support.

[Lee H]

Yes they support RAID as it states the following on the website ;

Intel® Matrix Storage Technology

Intel® Matrix Storage Technology, can deliver up to 80% faster storage performance with PCs equipped with two hard drives using RAID 0 data striping. Using RAID 1 data mirroring can protect against a hard drive failure by mirroring all data among two hard drives. In addition RAID 5 offers the fault-tolerant capability to automatically back up your most important files, while also providing faster disk access and adding storage capacity.

As such I'll get this amended accordingly.

Best Regards,

[IAmATeaf]

DS3P uses the ICH8R controller with the R meaning RAID as mentioned above. I too placed an order for this mobo last week, should hopefully get it middle of this coming week.