Godspeed27 Posted February 2, 2007 Posted February 2, 2007 I am looking to get a new hard drive and I currently have two very old ATA Maxtors. Should I change to SATA or stick with ATA. Is there anything I should know on setting up SATA hard drives. I do have a slight OC as you can see from my sig. Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Trooper Posted February 2, 2007 Posted February 2, 2007 Go with SATA2 for sure no question about that. SATA2 drives are straight forward there is no complication with setting them up. I'd suggest getting 2 hard drives and putting them in RAID 0. Don't worry about getting large drives unless you use the space. Brand doesn't really matter, most hard drive companies offer warranties longer than you usually keep them anyways lol. I would suggest either Western Digital or Seagate. Get 2 160GB Seagate SATA2 16MB Cache hard drives and put them in RAID 0, you'll be set. They go for about $70 Canadian a piece but I don't know how much they will be in Japan. RAID 0 will give you a noticeable performance gain. Your OS will load faster, large files load faster, games load quicker etc. If you put 2 160GB hard drives in RAID 0 you'll still get the full 320GB, all RAID 0 does is installs files onto both drives so that when you load you are loading from 2 different locations which = faster load times. Cheers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godspeed27 Posted February 2, 2007 Posted February 2, 2007 So if I buy two and then clone my os hard drive I have now. Then put them in RAID 0, will that work, or will I have to reinstall all my stuff? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Trooper Posted February 2, 2007 Posted February 2, 2007 I'm actually not sure if you can clone a regular hard drive to a RAID array but I imagine there is some possible way. Search around on the forum here or maybe someone else would like to chip in on this thread. Click on Members List at the top and then ask a bunch of regulars here at the forum with a high post count. You should get an answer pronto. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeffreys Posted February 2, 2007 Posted February 2, 2007 I have two ATA 133 drives installed (1 WD and 1 Max) and about a year ago installed a 300GB Seagate SATA with absolutely no problems. I still run all the drives and have no problems at all. Â Raid- Depending on your BIOS you may have to play with it to get it to work on the NF3's. But for Non-Raid it works great. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godspeed27 Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 jjeffreys, what did you use to clone your drives with? Just DOS command Xcopy? or something else? Thanks for the fast replies. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godspeed27 Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 Did you have to load the Sata drives and if so, how do you do this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeffreys Posted February 5, 2007 Posted February 5, 2007 I actually did not clone anything, so I am not sure of the best way. If I remember correctly it was just a matter installing it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roystont5038 Posted February 10, 2007 Posted February 10, 2007 Hi, There are (as you know) 4 SATA ports on the board. Ports 1 and 2 seem to be supported by the nF3 chipset. It is the other two ports i am worried about. Do I need to install drivers to get them to work? If so where do I find the drivers? roystont5038 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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