About The Sata Drives...

[gotdamojo06]

I have been thinking about switching to SATA drives from the IDE drives. I dont know much about SATA except for the fact that they are faster.

 

So you get the orange cable and plug that into the motherboard, is that how it transfers the data?

What do you plug into the drive for power, the same cable as a normal hdd?

 

Then the next question that I would be asking is how would I set up a RAID? Do I do this in the bios, with a piece of software or what?

[BoyBandsMustDie]

Here is what I thought,

the cable which sends the info is about a half-inch wide (sorry metric guys ) and really narrow.

While the power cord looks like the black end of this converter.

 

:Edit: although maybe someone can clear up what all these are for, for the both of us

Edited November 29, 2006 by BoyBandsMustDie

[gotdamojo06]

ok cool, do all of those things come with one of the drives?

 

how would you set up the raid arry?

 

thats a mess of wires...

[romeo55]

First of all does your mobo support it? What Does it support?

 

And most of the time, the mobo has it's own seperate bios to setup a raid in (READ the manual here....) ... once again, what raid DO you want to run

 

RAID 0 Striping (splits dat between multiple drives)

RAID 1 Mirroring (backups)

Raid 5 (both, must use 3 drives +) essentially, RAID 0 and RAID 1 combined.... A+B=C, you lose one, you can reconstruct data

Edited November 29, 2006 by The Unforgivin

[gotdamojo06]

I dont know what raids there are, and as far as I know my mobo supports it.

I have the MSI K8N Neo2

[romeo55]

I dont know what raids there are, and as far as I know my mobo supports it.

I have the MSI K8N Neo2

 

Download your manual, HERE Skip to chapter 5 and read

 

 

And that mobo supports 4 SATA HDs in RAID in RAID 0 or RAID 1 or both

 

Use the BIOS, IGNORE the software RAID (you want to boot off the drives...)

 

RAID 0= speed, but if you lose one drive, you lose everything (also combines drives)

RAID 1= no speed, but safer, mirroring

JBOD (not exactly raid) just connects your hardrives together it'll appear as one drive

Edited November 29, 2006 by The Unforgivin

[gotdamojo06]

I was thinking of 500 GB drives

 

So RAID 0 would show 1 TB of HDD space and act as 1 HDD, RAID 1 would show 2 500 GB HDD, and JBOD would show 1 TB HDD and act as 2 HDD?

[jammin]

Setting up RAID on the neo2 isn't too hard.

Just read the manual as it provides a pretty good walk-through of proceedings.

Remember that if you are overclocking that it's the ports nearest the cpu which have locks on them (3+4 I believe). The other two don't.

[romeo55]

I was thinking of 500 GB drives

 

So RAID 0 would show 1 TB of HDD space and act as 1 HDD, RAID 1 would show 2 500 GB HDD, and JBOD would show 1 TB HDD and act as 2 HDD?

 

JBOD connects each other, so it'll be one drive, 1tb

 

raid 1 mirrors so its one 500gb,

 

raid 0 is 1tb and 1 drive

[Fireonice]

And you can use regular 4 pin power connecters to. At least i do.

[gotdamojo06]

which do you guys think would be the safest and fastest?

 

Im leaning more towards JBOD, only because it seems like it would 1 be the easiest and 2 would be less wires running around in the case.

[jammin]

which do you guys think would be the safest and fastest?

 

Im leaning more towards JBOD, only because it seems like it would 1 be the easiest and 2 would be less wires running around in the case.

 

 

For a start, the number of wires running around the case is the same for 2 drives no matter what you decide to do with them.

As for what's safest or fastest. It works like this.

 

RAID 1 - safest + read speeds improved (generally). 1 drive dies and you lose nothing

JBOD - just like having a single disk, no more risky and no faster. 1 drive dies and you lose the contents of that drive.

RAID 0 - fastest, read/write speeds improved. 1 drive dies and lose everything

Edited November 29, 2006 by jammin