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| Thread ID: 65152 | 2006-01-09 09:30:00 | Running a SATA drive alongside IDE drives | Chemical Ali (118) | Press F1 |
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| 419385 | 2006-01-09 09:30:00 | Hi All Just a quick question -- I currently run 2 IDE hard drives and 2 optical drives in my PC. My motherboard supports both IDE & SATA drives. I was wondering if it was possible to run an additional (SATA) hard drive alongside the 2 IDE-based drives? The SATA drive would be a data-only drive (in effect a "slave" drive although I do appreciate that SATA drives are 'jumperless'). I'm reasonably certain that I can but just wanted to check with you learned forum members just for clarification & reassurance. :rolleyes: Also ... Given that this would now give a total of 5 drives in my PC. I'd assume that it would be wise to look at whether my PSU is up to the task -- currently I have a 420W W008RAC Thermaltake PSU installed -- any thoughts?? |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 419386 | 2006-01-09 09:37:00 | I was wondering if it was possible to run an additional (SATA) hard drive alongside the 2 IDE-based drives? Yes Also ... Given that this would now give a total of 5 drives in my PC. I'd assume that it would be wise to look at whether my PSU is up to the task -- currently I have a 420W W008RAC Thermaltake PSU installedShould easily handle it. My old 250W (PC Co) PSU managed a P4 with 2 optical drives and 2 harddrives :) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 419387 | 2006-01-09 12:10:00 | Bump ... Anyone else?? |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 419388 | 2006-01-09 18:29:00 | On some mainboards, enabling SATA drives disables one of the IDE channels. I' d hate to repeat it, but can't you check your m/b's manual? I have an ASUS p4p800E-deluxe, and it supports both SATA and IDE, but on my LINUX system, one IDE channel is disabled.. |
georgeks (9122) | ||
| 419389 | 2006-01-09 20:43:00 | Yup, I think on the ASUS P4P800, if you use an OS other than Windows 2k/XP, it also disables an IDE channel. If you use SATA and IDE. 420W should be enough. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 419390 | 2006-01-09 22:21:00 | Seeing as this is on SATA and IDE I'll ask here :D, is it possible to have windows loaded on multiple SATA HDDs in RAID 0? But, I will also contribute to this thread's purpose :thumbs:. I have an 80Gb IDE HDD sitting here and I worked out the power it consumes (not sure if that is max or what) on the +5V it says it uses 0.72A which means 3.6W, and on the +12V it says 0.35A which means 4.2W, not sure about SATA though, although I guess it won't be much difference, if any. As for the optical I have a 52X 32X 52X CDRW and that uses 7.5W on the +5V line, and 18W on the +12V line. Without knowing your full specs adding another HDD is unlikely to put you over the 420W HTH :thumbs: |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 419391 | 2006-01-09 23:28:00 | Why would u want RAID 0 on multiple SATA's?? If one dies, the rest go with it. Its not exactly the safest RAID to use. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 419392 | 2006-01-09 23:40:00 | Yes I know but the only thing is it will make the computer run a lot faster, program load times anyway :D. I will have a 160Gb IDE and do backups of all important data regularly, it is just something to reduce load times, if it works that is. RAID 0 that is the fast one, that spreads the data over multiple drives, am I right? |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 419393 | 2006-01-09 23:47:00 | Info here ( . wikipedia . org/wiki/RAID_0" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org) on the different RAID's . Well not necessarily, the speed of the system / and ram may also help in the loading of Windows, and programs . I use a 120gb SATA here as the main bootdisk, alongside an 80 GB IDE . I notice no diff at all, just running 1 of each . XP and programs load just as quick . Defragging may also make things load faster . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 419394 | 2006-01-09 23:59:00 | The speed of the system will be heaps. This is just as an idea for the new rig :D So basicly, what you are saying is that it is not worth the data loss for the small amount of preformance increase, if any? Nope defragging wont help, new rig, nothing installed :p |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
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