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| 220404 | 2004-03-06 03:32:00 | I'm about to update to a new motherboard which can support SATA drives -- I already run 2 IDE hard drives on my PC (as well as 2 optical drives) -- is it possible to run a SATA drive as a 3rd hard drive alongside 2 IDE drives on my new motherboard? This would, in effect, give me 5 drives running on my new pC: CD-Rom drive CD-RW drive Primary IDE drive Secondary IDE drive SATA drive Many thanks C. Ali |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 220405 | 2004-03-06 04:04:00 | by saying can support SATA drives do you mean that it uses sata instead of ide? Because if you aren't, well any motherboard can support stat, just by adding a sata controller. |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 220406 | 2004-03-06 04:10:00 | > drives on my PC (as well as 2 optical drives) -- is > it possible to run a SATA drive as a 3rd hard drive > alongside 2 IDE drives on my new motherboard? Most definitely. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 220407 | 2004-03-06 04:11:00 | > by saying can support SATA drives do you mean > that it uses sata instead of ide? Well - I took it to mean that it uses SATA as well as IDE. > Because if you aren't, well any motherboard can > support stat, just by adding a sata controller. Of course... ;) Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 220408 | 2004-03-06 05:07:00 | While on the topic, is one any faster than the other? | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 220409 | 2004-03-06 05:45:00 | SATA is theoretically faster. True benefits are gained when you put 2 SATA drives into a Raid 0 configuration... now that's fast! ;) Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 220410 | 2004-03-06 05:50:00 | > While on the topic, is one any faster than the other? neither really, currant hardrives aren't fast enough to make use of the extra bandwidth sata provides. however the fastest hardrives are becomming advailable only in sata as pata is phased out. if you have an extra ata controller i would use it. eg use sata hardrive and put the dvd/cd rom/writers on seperate pata channels. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 220411 | 2004-03-06 08:02:00 | But if you have RAID, isnt there more chance for error, then you loose all your data or something? | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 220412 | 2004-03-06 09:39:00 | with raid 0 the drives act as 1 drive . theres is no redundance so if one drive dies use loose all data (just like if you had a single drive) . different raid levels has differend redundance and run at different speeds . there is little difference in speed btween sata raid and pata raid . |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 220413 | 2004-03-06 09:49:00 | It supports both SATA & IDE so was toying around with the idea of running both SATA and an IDE drive(s) at the same time but not sure if I could run 3 hard drives at once -- too stuck on primary/secondary IDE channel thinkinh I guess! | Chemical Ali (118) | ||
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