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| Thread ID: 94381 | 2008-10-27 06:22:00 | Mix of IDE and SATA HDD | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 715100 | 2008-11-13 20:55:00 | I think what Speedy said is pretty right, but I'm not sure about the same size/same brand. I think depending on what sort of RAID you are going to use, you will only get the amount of storage available on the smallest HDD. EG 1 HDD @ 500gig and 1 HDD @ 320gig wil only get you 320gig if you are using mirroring. With striping you will get the sum of the two e.g. 820gig. I am 100% sure you will lose all the data on a drive to be converted to RAID. Even if you already have RAID enabled and working, changing to another mobo/RAID controller can require you to start all over again, as I found out recently. Enabling SATA - on one mobo I have it required a change to a jumper to enable it, which was confusing until I read the manual (!!) and realized it was necessary. Going back to my original post, I now have IDE and SATA running quite satisfactorily side by side on one system. Another source of confusion for the SATA/RAID newbie it seems to me is that even if you install a SATA disk with no intention of using as RAID, all the software/utilities still seem to refer to it as RAID. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 715101 | 2008-11-13 20:57:00 | Yes, you enable/disable it in the BIOS . I have a Gigabyte motherboard which hides some of the BIOS options . They are brought up by pressing CTRL+F1 while in the BIOS setup screen . From there they are under the Advanced | Chipset options, if I remember correctly . Speedy, I don't think Misty wants to use RAID but just wants to ensure he doesn't have to play funny games like I did . ;) :p |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 715102 | 2008-11-13 21:04:00 | Speedy, I don't think Misty wants to use RAID but just wants to ensure he doesn't have to play funny games like I did. ;) :pYes, I think so too, and as I said in my post that crossed yours, you can definitely have SATA without "real" RAID, but it may still be referred to as RAID in the BIOS/utilities. My joint setup has IDE and SATA side by side with no RAID, and all the disks look the same to Windows as separate physical disks. On my PC with RAID, the disks still look the same to Windows. The 2 physical disks are in RAID 0 (striping) config and Windows sees them as one physical disk that can be partitioned like any other. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 715103 | 2008-11-13 21:22:00 | Misty and Tony's replies just prior to mine weren't there when I started to reply (hadn't refreshed the window) but that is pretty much the system that I have, Misty, except that I have three hard drives and my data is backed up to each in case one fails like it did a few months ago. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 715104 | 2008-11-14 11:07:00 | Thanks everyone, and particularly Foxy, it's all sorted and the extra hard drive all fitted and working. Misty :thumbs: :thumbs: |
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