PATA SATA Combo [Archive] - Overclockers Forums

jsimacek

01-01-09, 01:25 PM

Hi guys I havnt put a computer together in years so Im a little rusty. I am planning on getting an ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe motherboard ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131339 ) and running one of the new phenoms coming out on the eighth. Now the motherboard specs say it has 6 SATA and 1 PATA. Now does that mean I can hook up 8 Drives at once? Or do you have to choose between PATA and SATA. if you can I want to put a DVD burner and Blue Ray burner on the PATA and have 6 1TB SATAS. Is this possible? and if so do I just plug them all in or do I have to do some kind of RAID. ( Have never done it before is why I ask. I have always assumed raid is when you try to have more HDDs than ports ). All help is greatly appreciated.

billbob

01-01-09, 02:35 PM

Hi, Yes this is possible on this mobo. YOu do not have to have any RAID set up to run them all either (RAID is only is you want to keep all of your data backed up, have all of the drives together to make a big and so on). The only thing i would say is that if you was going to have all these drives on your PC get a good PSU. Lots of drives can take a lot of juce. In my pc i have a SATA 300 HDD, a SATA DVD-RW drive and an old Seagate PATA drive together and they are fine

jsimacek

01-01-09, 02:41 PM

Great thats good to know. Thanks for your help

gvguy39

01-01-09, 02:50 PM

Do they make IDE (pata) Blue Ray drives?

jsimacek

01-01-09, 02:57 PM

good question I dont know I hope so Because I dont think their are TB PATA drives

gvguy39

01-01-09, 03:00 PM

I don't think they do... couldn't find one on newegg other than a thin profile one, prolly for a notebook

gvguy39

01-01-09, 03:07 PM

And NO, raid is not when you are trying to have more drives than ports... you still have to have a port for each drive. The SATA is one drive per port and the PATA (ide) 2 drives (the old master/slave thing)

billbob

01-01-09, 03:08 PM

They only make SATA Blu Ray drives because PATA is too slow. I think you can get 1TB PATA drives but not 100%. I know they make 500gb and maybe 750gb.

jsimacek

01-01-09, 03:12 PM

Well thanks guys I have all the info I need to make my decision. All help is greatly appreciated

billbob

01-01-09, 03:13 PM

no probs. Gd luck on the puter

wingman99

01-01-09, 03:25 PM

6 SATA drives plug them in one at a time, the IDE two at the most with your board.:beer: