Multiple SATA Controller Cards

[Pilgrim]

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Does anyone know if it is possible to have an inbuilt sata controller card working along side a pci sata card? I want to run with 3 sata drives but dont want to use raid.

Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

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Works fine on my machine.

"Pilgrim" <pilgrims_REMOVETHISrest@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know if it is possible to have an inbuilt sata controller card
working along side a pci sata card? I want to run with 3 sata drives but
dont want to use raid.
>
> Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

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Onboard SATA can be combined with a SATA Controller card. It may be
impossible to run an HD on the PCI Card in RAID with an HD on the
onboard SATA Controller, but I highly recommend running the two on your
Onboard SATA Controller in RAID 1 (if availble). RAID 0 is fast, but
RAID 1 adds extra security.

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Nathan McNulty


Nick Burns wrote:
> Works fine on my machine.
>
> "Pilgrim" <pilgrims_REMOVETHISrest@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:410370c8$0$7127$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...
>
>>Does anyone know if it is possible to have an inbuilt sata controller card
>
> working along side a pci sata card? I want to run with 3 sata drives but
> dont want to use raid.
>
>>Any help much appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
>

 

[tsetsefly]

I another question on multiple SATA cards.

I have a motherboard without HD SATA connectors, only IDE (Asus A7V133), the boot disk is on IDE, machine is a Windows Home Server
I have added 2 SATA drives using a Rosewill RC-215 (PCI SATA card with 2 SATA ports)
I am not using any RAID features


Question: Could I add another RC-215 PCI SATA card to gain 2 more SATA ports ? (would there be an conflicts between 2 - PCI SATA cards in the machine ?)


Thanks for any help !