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Can you set up raid with just one hard drive? Would it be much improvement over hooking it up IDE style?
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NOOB Raid Question....
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raid requires more then 1 hdd.
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The key part of the acronym RAID is DISKS or DISCS.
That plural.
And since we are on the topic, dont bother with RAID 0, ONLY RAID 1,5,10 or 3/XL pay off.
That plural.
And since we are on the topic, dont bother with RAID 0, ONLY RAID 1,5,10 or 3/XL pay off.
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darthdana said:
Why? Unless he wants raptor raid.
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My bad, I edited what I wanted to really say.Vio1 said:
Dont bother with RAID 0 ZERO
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so the SATA adapter for my IDE HDD that came with my mobo is useless unless I get another HDD?
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ya whats wrong with raid-0? If your using 7200rpm drives you will notice a difference in performance.
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So, that doesn't sound right.... You can hook up an Sata drive (singular) and have raid!
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TxAMD said:
To setup RAID0 or RAID1, which is what your board supports, you will need two (2) HDDs. You can still setup one HDD on the SATA Controller on your MoBo to allow future use of all you IDE Controllers for optical drives or a backup HDD.
Will there be a benefit? That depends if the SATA BIOS you have & the current SATA Drivers are better than the IDE Controller & Drivers available. You will have an added screen during bootup, SATA RAID BIOS(will show up even if not being used as a RAID Array simply because you are suing the controller), & identify the drive conected to your SATA Controller. This will add a few seconds during bootup.
