SATA hard drives

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Hi All
I have DFI Lanparty 865PE MOBO.
Intel 2.4C , CPU
1 GIG of Ram
128 mgb video card
I have 2 Seagate SATA drives running just as SATA no Raid.
I have not installed any software or special drivers for them.
Hooked them up and installed windows as if they were IDE drives.
They are no faster then IDE drives , can't tell the difference if i run one
SATA and one IDE or 2 SATA.
I am almost afried to install the drivers on the floppy, the way i read it
they are only for if i set a Raid Config.
In device manager it says they are useing Microsoft drivers.
Is this the way it should be or should i install the floppy drivers raid or
no raid.
I have windows XP PRO on one drive and the second drive is storage only.
Thanks
--
Carl

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"Nick Burns" <thedoc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> You don't need the floppy and SATA's at current firmware are not much
faster
> then IDE.
>

Ditto.

Just started using them on Asus PC-DL and expected more as
well, and did some testing just to find out they're
only marginally faster, and only with certain types of
file I/O.

I *do* like the smaller cabling/connectors tho'


>
>
> "Carl" <cgerving@ecenetDOTcom> wrote in message
> news:%23i3H6hrbEHA.1356@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hi All
> > I have DFI Lanparty 865PE MOBO.
> > Intel 2.4C , CPU
> > 1 GIG of Ram
> > 128 mgb video card
> > I have 2 Seagate SATA drives running just as SATA no Raid.
> > I have not installed any software or special drivers for them.
> > Hooked them up and installed windows as if they were IDE drives.
> > They are no faster then IDE drives , can't tell the difference if i run
> one
> > SATA and one IDE or 2 SATA.
> > I am almost afried to install the drivers on the floppy, the way i read
it
> > they are only for if i set a Raid Config.
> > In device manager it says they are useing Microsoft drivers.
> > Is this the way it should be or should i install the floppy drivers raid
> or
> > no raid.
> > I have windows XP PRO on one drive and the second drive is storage only.
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Carl
> >
> >
>
>

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I have two WD 120gig 7200RPM sata drives, configured as
Raid 0, and I noticed that windows XP is a "little" faster on
bootup, but other than that, it's not any faster than IDE.
I do notice a difference in photoshop though, rendering HUGE
picture files ( 30-40 meg TIFF ). Like posted here, with the
current generation of SATA, there isn't much of a difference in
speed. The only reason I bought two SATA drives, was I was
building a new computer, the drives were DIRT cheap, and there
wasn't a difference in price between the mobo with sata, or the
one without. Plus, it cut down on the spaghetti mess of cables
inside my case.


>Hi All
>I have DFI Lanparty 865PE MOBO.
>Intel 2.4C , CPU
>1 GIG of Ram
>128 mgb video card
>I have 2 Seagate SATA drives running just as SATA no Raid.
>I have not installed any software or special drivers for them.
>Hooked them up and installed windows as if they were IDE drives.
>They are no faster then IDE drives , can't tell the difference if i run one
>SATA and one IDE or 2 SATA.
>I am almost afried to install the drivers on the floppy, the way i read it
>they are only for if i set a Raid Config.
>In device manager it says they are useing Microsoft drivers.
>Is this the way it should be or should i install the floppy drivers raid or
>no raid.
>I have windows XP PRO on one drive and the second drive is storage only.
>Thanks