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678242	2008-06-14 00:09:00	Have just installed a new GA-EP35-DS3 motherboard. 1 sata hard drive & 10 sockets to plug it into. 8 are grouped together & 2 are separate. Yes I did read the manual. I chose 1 on the separate socket & it seems to work ok but are still not sure. Also there is some sugestion that at least 2 identical hard drives should be used to get best performance. Anyone familiar with this?	Driftwood (5551)
678243	2008-06-14 01:30:00	Hi driftwood. I honestly can't say why two of the ports would be seperate. The motherboards I have only feature four ports which are all together. However if it works fast enough then I suspect you shouldn't have any further problems. The two identical hard drives thing may be referring to running two identical disks in RAID 0 to increase performance. Unless you're willing to buy another disk (you will get the extra capacity too) then it's nothing to worry about. Hope this helps.	technicianxp (6463)
678244	2008-06-14 01:32:00	Yep, it's normally something to do with particular RAID setups. They should be numbered, plug it into SATA0, or if there is no 0 use SATA1. Using 2 drives and setting up a RAID will increase performance, but although a standard 2 disk RAID1 array increases speeds by 100%, as each drive only has to write half the data it normally would, the chance of data increases loss by 100% too, because if one of the drives were to fail, you lose everything. If you really want to get into RAID, I'd recommend setting up a system like RAID3, or putting one large drive in and backing up important data to it. en.wikipedia.org	wratterus (105)
678245	2008-06-14 01:57:00	Thanks for that. I'll move it to the one called "SATAII0" & see how it goes. The one I was using was called "Gigabyte SATA2" it's purple & all the others are orange. The choices are SATAII/0/1/2/3/4/5 GSATAII/0/1 Gigabyte SATA2	Driftwood (5551)
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