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22nd July 2004, 01:00
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|  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. |
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22nd July 2004, 11:29
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22nd July 2004, 11:36
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 | it will work with the adapters afaik
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22nd July 2004, 12:24
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| but a pata raid is easy to find 2ndhand , how much do the converters cost ? can't seem to find them prijswatch.be
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22nd July 2004, 12:53
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| quite a lot when bought new I think. €30+?
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22nd July 2004, 22:13
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| 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 |
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22nd July 2004, 22:15
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| 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.
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22nd July 2004, 22:35
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23rd July 2004, 09:53
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| 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? |
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23rd July 2004, 10:19
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| look at our main site  Onboard SATA vs PCI SATA http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=109
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