please help with ABIT TH7II-Raid

[TrueBoyz]

Can someone please tell me what is RAID and how does it works? I bought this mobo with an pentium 4 1.6A. I was wondering am i suppose to connect my hardrive on the IDE3, which is the raid controller? I only have one hardrive, an IBM 40 gig. Is raid only works with 2 or more hardrives?

Also, can someone who has this mobo help me set up the bios so i can run it stablely? What advices do you guys have on it? Thank you!

Ps. I bought 2x 128 MB of Kingston RDRAM. Is that good? Can i overclock with it? Did i made the right choice buying this motherboard?

 

[Enigma422]

The full explanation of RAID is kind of complicated since there are several levels of RAID, but to answer your question about connecting your HD to the RAID controller card, you can do that, the RAID controller card on the Abit TH7II-RAID can be used as a standard ATA100 port.

 

[gone_fishin]

The motherboard you bought overclocks well. I'm not sure about the Kingston mem, most overclockable has been Samsung. If you have two identicle hard drives then you can take advantage of the raid feature. You can hook just one up to the raid controller but you might as well disable it if you're not using it and hook up to IDE one.

 

[TrueBoyz]

I'm planning to put my Liteon 24x burner on IDE1 and my dvd drive on IDE2 and my hardrive on IDE3. I mean it's better to have the device on a separate channel than to share it right? I don't want to setup my hardrive as a master and my dvd as a slave. Which is more efficient?