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Single SATA or IDE RAID

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  • SATA
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April 25, 2007 2:10:09 PM

I have an ECS P965T-A motherboard.

New Egg Specs:
Storage Devices
PATA 1 x ATA100 up to 2 Devices
SATA 3Gb/s 5
SATA RAID 0/1
Additional RAID Controller JMicron JMB361

From some of the user reviews I have read and from my own experience, the RAID controller only recognizes IDE drives. Of course I have 2 brand new 250 GB SATA drives that I was going to use in RAID.

I realize that SATA 2 is much faster than IDE. Drive speed also depends on the drives themselves. Lets say I was able to find identicle drives SATA and IDE.

Would it be faster to run 2 IDE drives in RAID 0 configuration, or a single SATA drive??? Just looking for some opinions.

Thanks!

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April 26, 2007 12:47:11 AM

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Would it be faster to run 2 IDE drives in RAID 0 configuration, or a single SATA drive??? Just looking for some opinions.


the interface bandwidth wont matter TBH... pata100 bandwidth is really all you need for any current consumer hdd, up to 100MB/s then (no consumer hdd is any faster then that)... such as sata300 is purely there for futureproofing, but no hdd is anywhere near fast enough to benefit from it yet

IMO, i would just go for a faster single hdd, which will provide the most consistant benefits for all applications... raid 0 has its benefits, but how much it benefits is going to greatly depend on what you intend to do... such as, if you intend to work with transferring large files, editing movies and audio, editing large media of other kind, then go with raid 0... for most other uses though, just go with a single hdd
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