buildin a sata raid with ide hard-disks
 

Here's my plan
there is a Sata-Raid controller on my mainboard.
i have one 80 gig 7200 rpm 2 mb cache Maxtor ide HD.
i 'm planning to buy a second one, and two ide to sata adaptors.
And build a raid on that base.

any comments/toughts?
my local hardware guru says its a no-show.

buy a pci pata raid controller !

edit : look for 2nd hand

it will work with the adapters afaik

but a pata raid is easy to find 2ndhand ,
how much do the converters cost ?
can't seem to find them prijswatch.be

quite a lot when bought new I think. €30+?

jups, altough i found them for 15 € on some american site, doesn't help me any further ffcourse...
the great thing about sata are the nfty little cables, altough i have rounded ide ones...
but i really do want to use the sata raid interface on my mainbord

sell your IDE drives, buy new SATA ones. will come to a loss of ~€60, which is basically the cost of the convertors. And that way you are set with new drives and no worries for lateron.

too complicated :)

does a build in sata raid controller put a heavy load on my cpu, compared to a pci ide adaptor?
more or less?
does anyone has some interesting linkks on the subject?

look at our main site:)



Onboard SATA vs PCI SATA
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