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DrSatan316   07-22-2005 at 08:30:24 PM

I was curious if I could set up RAID or not and if, How.

I have a Intel P4C800-E Deluxe
Maxtor 80GB IDE
Maxtor 300GB SATA
Win XP pro

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folken   07-22-2005 at 09:55:12 PM
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Yes, you have the choice of raid 0,1,0+1 on that motherboard for SATA drives. You will need 2 or more identical drives to create an array.
Why do you want to setup a raid array?

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DrSatan316   07-22-2005 at 10:00:19 PM
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My question was if I could do it with my current drives. I thought I seen somewhere you can do it with IDE or SATA drives and that they don't need to be identical but using identical ones was pretty common.

As far as why, I just wanted to try it, seems like a lot of people use it.

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folken   07-23-2005 at 01:10:23 AM
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You might be able to rig somekind of software raid with the drives you have now but it would not be pretty and be somewhat useless.
Lots of people are making raid0 arrays (stripe) for their boot drives because it does increase transfer speeds considerably. To do that would require two identical drives hooked up to a raid controller and to have the raid controller configured to raid0 those two drives.

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