WD SATA drive question. Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 () I just purchased a WD (Model WD1600) SATA hard drive for my Gateway 710X in order to add a Linux partition plus extra storage. However, upon printing out their (WD's) installation...

RAiD utility by sillicon image which showed my 3 SATA II drives unfortunately under neither settings could the windows 7 installer see any of my SATA II drives. My question is this I want to install Windows 7 onto my WD Caviar drive, while having all drives...

a 200gb SATA drive or add the SATA drive as >a third harddrive mounted in one of the empty bays. >> I realize I will need the controller card for the SATA drive. My question> is, is it possible to continue using my EIDE drive(s) and have the SATA>drive...

vista and xp multiple times on both ide and sata drives with no issues to date in terms of detection. If they are not being recognized my guess with an ide drive would be perhaps you do not have the jumpers set correctly, with a sata drive there should be no...

go with SATA units but only 450GB drives if I go SAS. Why is this? Why would I want to use more than twice as many SAS drives over the larger SATA drives? Good question! Answers will depend on whom you ask! :) Western Digital's RAID Edition 3 ("RE3") and...

Hard Drive question. Hello all, I really dont know alot about hard drives and their setups at all. All I know is I need more space so I bought a 500gb sata western digital HD. My setup right now is just a 80gb sata drive. I really just want to add the new...

There is no daisy-chaining as in PATA IDE with Master/Slave setups. Depending on your system, a SATA drive can obtain higher average speeds at or above 50 Megabytes a second. You could get a PCI SATA card and purchase a SATA disk drive. However,...

XP installation, hard drives question. Hello I have two hard disks in my computer, one Seagate SATA 120 GB, and another maxtor ide 80 gb I want to install XP on the SATA because its a faster disk. When I start to install XP I have to put the diskette...

the manuel says on-board ports 1-4 are by default RAID only. Right now the RC OS is installed on a single 500GB SATA drive, but my future plans are to install 3 SATA hard drives in RAID 5 mode, which only leaves one port for optical drives. My question...

sas to 4x sata cables into? therefor supporting 8 sata drives per card? another question I have is: how do you know what sized drives different cards support? do these cards only support certain capacities? it never seems to be a problem with onboard sata,...