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I just bought a WD 250GB sata hdd for my system. The question is now how best to hook it up.
Right now I'm running a 2 disk raid hooked up to the two red sata (ICH7) connectors. My bios is set IDE Configuration to RAID. This new drive is going to be a backup drive and not part of the raid. Can I connect it to one of the black (ICH7) connectors and just not include it in the raid in the Intel Raid management setup? Or should I put it on the SI raid connector?
Also, since I'm on the subject, the Silicon Image connector is a single connector, but the manual states it's a SATA_RAID2 connector. Does this connector somehow work with the 4 ICH7 connectors when IDE is set as RAID? Never understood how one connector could run a mutiple disk array. If someone could clear that up for me that would be great.
Thanks.
Edit: grammar.
Right now I'm running a 2 disk raid hooked up to the two red sata (ICH7) connectors. My bios is set IDE Configuration to RAID. This new drive is going to be a backup drive and not part of the raid. Can I connect it to one of the black (ICH7) connectors and just not include it in the raid in the Intel Raid management setup? Or should I put it on the SI raid connector?
Also, since I'm on the subject, the Silicon Image connector is a single connector, but the manual states it's a SATA_RAID2 connector. Does this connector somehow work with the 4 ICH7 connectors when IDE is set as RAID? Never understood how one connector could run a mutiple disk array. If someone could clear that up for me that would be great.
Thanks.
Edit: grammar.
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