SATA or IDE?

Computer Forum Storage Devices
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Hi All:

Just wondering if someone could help with the following:

I have just purchased Gigabyte Ga-8ipe1000PRO-G S478 865PE ATX Sound GIG LAN Firewire USB 2.0 motherboard which supports two SATA 100 drives; my question is; is it possible to use both IDE and SATA on the motherboard, therefore possibly enabling me to have OS on one SATA drive and the second mirroring the above (RAID 1) Then using the IDE ports, could I use the additional IDE hard drives as storage for further applications?

All advice very much appreciated.

Cheers

Olly :smiley:

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Hi All:

After some initial experimentation I have found out that it is possible for the above to be performed, however you cannot RAID the IDE drives.

Thanks anyway

Olly :good:

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You can raid IDE drives with certain drive controllers, such as silicon image which has IDE RAID, but SATA is recommended because its revised and many errors of IDE are fixed, SATA is falling into the IDE price, and its 12mhz faster in transfer, or SATAII which is over twice as fast in transfer speeds than IDE

Using SATA can also take up less space on your mobo, and the cables allow more airflow in your case

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Yea SATA is all around your best bet. SATA II drives are really fairly inexpensive, but the mobo to support it can get up there pricewise.

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and its connectors are even thinner, and everythings a little better though regular SATA holds the best speeds now

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Didn’t he mean RAID on IDe and SATA drives? thats not possible. He wasn’t talking about RAId with 2 IDE drives, which we all know is possible.

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Yea I think he was talking about RAIDind an IDE with a SATA, which isn’t possible.

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i think RAID 10 allows integration like that, I’m not sure

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Maybe. By RAID 10 do you mean 1+0, where you have striping (speed) and mirroring (redundacy)?