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  • gdement
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    • Jan 2007
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    Opinions about HPT372 vs SiS961 vs HPT370

    I'm setting up a PC for my sister using a Soyo P4S Dragon Ultra motherboard. It has an Sis645 northbridge, SiS961 southbridge and a HPT372 RAID controller. I'm not interested in the RAID feature, it only uses a single 80GB Seagate 7200.7 hard drive. However, I can still use the HPT372 to run a single drive.

    Does anybody have opinions about which controller (SiS961 vs HPT372) is more reliable for controlling the hard disk? I just want to minimize the risk of corruption. Both are capable of the ATA100 mode which the drive utilizes.

    Also, how is the HPT370? I'm thinking about ditching this board for a (slower) AMD761 board, which happens to have a 686B and HPT370 on it.

    Thanks for any opinions.
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