More Never ending custom build problems

One more time / have never seen so many problems with just buying a new computer:
Are you our there Harm or others..
Never seen anything like this..
Gigabyte X58-UD5 Motherboard / USB-3 and ESata-3 600
Win-7 Pro 64 bit..
WD eSataV-Raptor 600gb system drive /eSata 3 I believe, at least this is what I ordered.
Other drives are WD-Black 7200 eStata-3
Now the second rebuild of this new system shows up with more issues:
on the green icon for external device removal, My C Drive & one of my 4 other hard drives are showing as dismountable.. What’s up with that scary stuff?
In the bios my eSata drives are showing as IDE. don’t see any option to change this..
The Win-7 speed test gives me readings of 7.7 across all items except my C Drive which is the 10,000rpm WD, this gives me a score of 5.9 >100mbs.???
>>>Then when I go to access the onboard raid controller it reports it can not be found, but I did install this from the Gigabyte DVD..
I have read all kinds of topics about this, including not having the C Drive on the same power cable as the other Hard Drives…
The more I read on the net about this the more confused I get..
The builder does not seem to have a clue about any of these issues..
Can anyone turn the light on here..
Thanks again for about the fourth time and counting:
>>>Any recommendations on a utility to just do Hard Drive speed testing / not a full benchmark program..
Thanks again folks / I’m about to give up the ghost on buying new computers..

John T Smith wrote:
>Should the other HD’s also be on controllers as masters only
I have an ASUS motherboard with 3 hard drives... each one connected directly to the motherboard
I don't know how many sata connections your motherboard has... but I would **think** that as long as you don't have more drives than connections, it would be better to have each drive directly connected to the motherboard
Say JT..
I think you did not understand or I did not explain properly, all my drives are Sata drives are connected directly to the motherboard, they just show up in the bios as master and slave.. The board supports 10 hard drives / 5 banks of two slots each / controller numbers 0 to 9.
If drives are connected to controller 0 & 1 they show up as master and slave in bios
If the same drives are connected to controller 0 & 3 they show up as both masters..
I was just trying to find out if there was any actual performance difference between the two options above, especially if the master HD is 10,000 rpm and the slave is 7200rpm...
Also:
Controllers 0 through 5 are listed as Sata-2
Controllers 6 & 7 are listed as GSata-3
Controllers 8 & 9 are listed as GSata-2 whatever that is ??
It notes that two of these share the same ports with eStat but does not say which ones.
I assume there is no actual diference speed wise between the hard drive performance on Sata 2 or GSata-3 because of other bottlenecks ?
All my drives are Sata-3
Two of my drives are showing up on the task bar as removable drives ( one of these are my C: Drive)..
I tried to unmount these just to see what would happen and it will not actually disconnect / thank god. :-
Can anyone out there with Win-7 tell me what the Win-7 performance test gives you for a rating number for your C: Drive ??
All my scores are 7.7 except the Hard drive (C; drive) which is rated as 5.9 ??
>>>Would that be a normal rating for a WD Raptor 10,000 rpm or is there some issues going on here ?
I did not doo much today with this system / kind of burnt out for now.
Thanks for the comeback.

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1. Do you see any poor or strange decisions?
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--smoothly edit huge amounts of RED 4k footage/clips and view the video externally in as high a resolution as possible (2k or minimum of 1k).
---no reason to have more than 3 layers visible at a time.
--the vast majority of the time only 1 video layer (with video effects) will be visible, with perhaps a handful of fades/dissolves during the entire 2-hour feature.
--I don't mind if it takes slightly more time rendering DPX files at the end, but I don't want any hiccups and never want to render during day-to-day editing and monitoring.
GRAPHICS CARD and VIDEO MONITORS
1. I'm pretty much set on the GTX 285, but I wondered if for my purposes I'd get any significant benefit from the Quadro FX 5800 (+$2000-$2600) or the GTX 480 (+$100)? Either in speed of playback or in output to external video monitors. The 5800 has 4GB RAM versus the GTX 285's 1GB, and the GTX 480 has 1.5 GB. Does this RAM matter for what I'm doing or are the cores much more important? Also, if I chose the GTX 480 then I'd have to pray that everything would be stable with a MPE/CUDA/GPU-acceleration hack, or hope Adobe comes through with full support of that card.
2. What is the 3rd output on the GTX 285? There are two DVI outputs and then something that looks like S-Video. Is it S-video out? Or an HD audio out that travels alongside the DVI output to an external video monitor?
3. Does it slow down the system to send the video at 1k or 2k to an external video monitor since you'd be using both DVI outputs simultaneously?
RED 4k PLAYBACK and RAM vs CPU
1. For day-to-day editing, I'm fine scaling to 1/4 resolution if necessary and monitoring video externally at 1k or 2k. Would my current system already achieve that smoothly?
2. From what I've gathered here and elsewhere, for better 2k or 4k playback it might be better to spend extra on CPU rather than RAM. I could spend
--$1000 more for 24GB RAM (instead of 12GB)
--$290 more for an i7 975 Extreme 3.33 GHz 8M Cache
--$686 more for an i7 980x Extreme 3.33 GHz 12M cache.
Given my needs and the current total system cost of $1950, which of these 3 would you choose? Or should I stay with the cheaper i7 930 2.8 GHz and overclock (which I've never done before).
ECBowen:
It sounds like you've used a system similar to what I'm buying to playback RED 4k on a timeline in full, 1/2, and 1/4 scale. I'd greatly appreciate if you could clarify YES/NO for which are possible to have SMOOTH PLAYBACK with your 980x/12GB RAM/GTX 285 system. I know it's a lot to ask, but it would make me feel so much better about this big purchase:
-full scale 4k of 1 layer with 0 video effects
-full scale 4k of 3 layers with 0 video effects
-full scale 4k of 1 layer with 3 video effects
-full scale 4k of 3 layers with 3 video effects (NO, right?)
-1/2 scale of 1 layer with 0 video effects
-1/2 scale of 3 layers with 0 video effects
-1/2 scale of 1 layer with 3 video effects
-1/2 scale of 3 layers with 3 video effects
-1/4 scale of 3 layers with 3 video effects
RAID CONTROLLER
1. I won't use the virtual/software controller. The GigaByte UD5 says it has RAID 0, 1, 5, 10. Does that mean it has an onboard hardware controller that I can configure in Windows 7 or using some software supplied with the mobo?

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