gotdamojo06 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoyBandsMustDie Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 (edited) 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotdamojo06 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 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... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeo55 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 (edited) 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotdamojo06 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 I dont know what raids there are, and as far as I know my mobo supports it. I have the MSI K8N Neo2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeo55 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 (edited) 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotdamojo06 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammin Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeo55 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireonice Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 And you can use regular 4 pin power connecters to. At least i do. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotdamojo06 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammin Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 (edited) 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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