RAID on P4C800-E

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johnflyons

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• Aug 21, 2003

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Have 2 raptor drives and 2 wd 1200 jb ide drives with highpoint serial adaptors CAN I USE ALL? I would like to use the JB's for extra storage and I would like the best setup possible. ANY help would be gratfully apreciated. THANKS, John

 

cypher

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• Sep 1, 2003

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you would need at least one PATA to SATA adaptor. I am running a simular setup but am using two of the adaptors on 2 WD 80 Gb SE in raid 1. With the raptors in raid 0.

 

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• Sep 1, 2003

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You could use all , no problem

 

mrgreenjeans

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• Sep 1, 2003

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U can set up the raptors on the serial connectors and the IDE's on the ide connector, one master and one slave, as a true RAID or get the adapters and set up all as serial drives. But I don't think the other serial connectors are on the RAID chip. On my P4C800 Dlx they aren't.

 

cypher

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• Sep 1, 2003

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the "E" version has 2 serial connectors on the southbridge that are raid and also two more that are on the promise chip with the option of using a PATA set with as one of the drives in the array.

 

gruvin2

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• Sep 2, 2003

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Just a question. Not trying to jack this thread. I currently have the P4C800 Dlx. I am looking to get 2 Raptors in the near future and am wondering how much of a RAID0 preformance gain i would get if i changed to the P4C800-E ?? Anyone find any reviews between the two MB's ?