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| Thread ID: 48074 | 2004-08-13 10:37:00 | PCI IDE controller or PCI RAID controller? | Mike (15) | Press F1 |
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| 261183 | 2004-08-13 10:37:00 | Does a typical PCI RAID controller offer independent IDE control, or only RAID setups? I've got several IDE hard drives that I would like the option of having them all in one machine, however I do not want them in a RAID type setup. Possible? Or should I just get a plain old IDE controller card (that offers 4 more IDE ports)? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 261184 | 2004-08-13 10:56:00 | It depends on the card really. You can use a PCI raid card as just a IDE controller, just don't build the raid arrays, so if you get a card with 4 IDE channels, you can have 4 HDD's and they would come up as 4 separate drives in windows. So I guess you may as well get a raid card in case you decide to build a raid array later on. |
tech_meister (5509) | ||
| 261185 | 2004-08-13 11:21:00 | > It depends on the card really. > You can use a PCI raid card as just a IDE controller, > just don't > build the raid arrays, so if you get a card with 4 > IDE channels, you can > have 4 HDD's and they would come up as 4 separate > drives in windows. > So I guess you may as well get a raid card in case > you decide to > build a raid array later on. If I have an IDE or RAID card with, say, 4 channels, does this mean I can use the 4 (Primary slave/master, secondary slave/master) on my motherboard as well as the 4 on the IDE/RAID card (giving a total possible of 8)? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 261186 | 2004-08-13 11:34:00 | Yes | tech_meister (5509) | ||
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