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SATA Raid cards - 11/18/2005 16:17:52
Okay, so my current MOBO has 2 existing SATA ports running 2 X WD 80GB SATA HDD's. (Striped together for the dreamy creamy speedyness)
The MOBO I will be buying next has 4 X SATA ports.
So if I have four drives striped together in 2 pairs that gives me essentially 2 HDDs.
Now, I like to have 3 drives, one for OS & progs, one for my web related stuff and another for my media.
So, if I buy a 2 port SATA card I could get my third pair of drives running.
Now, are you restricted to only using one SATA raid card (thus meaning you have to get a 4 port or 8 port version) or can you have more than one and run more drives that way?
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RE: SATA Raid cards - 11/19/2005 4:06:22
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So, if I buy a 2 port SATA card I could get my third pair of drives running.
- Any decent raid card will run you quite a bit. I can't tell you what to get, since I have no clue what is decently priced in the UK. In the US, if I was going to get a raid card, I would get a used $300+ card. Something like this is pretty good.
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Now, are you restricted to only using one SATA raid card
- You are restricted to the number of PCI slots available. I suggest you take a look at an 8 sata port motherboard that has raid. Usually it is 4 sata ports (300mb/s), and then 4 more sata ports (also 300mb/s).
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RE: SATA Raid cards - 11/19/2005 13:14:59
I wouldn't ever buy a $15 2 port raid card. Goodluck, I'm sure we'll see ya back in another month, wondering why your hard drives are having issues.
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RE: SATA Raid cards - 11/19/2005 14:16:09
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ORIGINAL: Taz
Even if it's cheap it has to do what it says it does on the tin or it goes against trade descriptions act here, thus I get my cash back.
- lol, big chance to taken on something that I wouldn't ever take a chance with. I even switched from Seagate drives to Western Digital drives, just for their SecureConnect connections. I can't comment on that specific model, but you might want to do some research on it.
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RE: SATA Raid cards - 11/19/2005 16:26:29
I haven't every had a problem. I think they look better than the standard red cable too. I had a seagate drive that just didn't like the standard sata cable. I decided to move to a WD raptor from that seagate drive, and never had a connection problem at all.
I'm sure I just got a bad drive, but knowing that I will have a secure connection, makes me feel better. It isn't needed, but if you don't mind a few bucks, it is a small investment. Every drive I have is connected by a WD SecureConnect cable. I think I got them for like $8 shipped/ea, which is pretty good.
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RE: SATA Raid cards - 11/19/2005 18:40:36
Taz, I just realized that the card you linked to earlier is NOT a raid controller card. It is just a standard card that allows yout to connect 2 more sata connectors. So that will be perfectly fine for connecting two additional sata drives. I thought it also did raid, hence the title of the post, and the discussion lol.
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RE: SATA Raid cards - 11/20/2005 16:25:44
Well if you need a raid card (to mirror/stripe drives, etc.) that card won't work.
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