I currently get 50Mbps sustained and 100Mbps sustained with my SATA drive\n\nWhat can u get with 2 SATA drives in RAID 0?\n\nWhat can you get with SATA II?
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probably not much better to get real speed get a western digital RAPTOR 10000 rpm but a seek time half the time of anything thing else load XP pro in 15 minutes
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Unfortunatly Windows xp cant see any thing more then around 137 to 143 gigs per drive It has something to do with the way windows formats the drives. I know this for experiance I would love it if there was a way i could do that with my 250 gig drive but NTFS formating and Fat32 prevent it from happening.
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hmmm. I dont quite follow that response but it strikes me as fairly well informed..\n\nIf you are attempting to put this in a computer that already works you may need to install specific drivers for the sata connection, if they were not installed by default when you installed the motherboard drivers and such. If you did not have this drive in when you installed windows, it may not have installed the storage drivers...\n\nI was thinking you may need the large drive support drivers but I am not sure. I believe that is over 137 gigs.\n\nbelow is a link to the drivers that may make it work.\n\nex. If I dont have my scsi drivers on a floppy, windows can't see the drive to install it during my windows install. \nBefore you try this I would go to windows update and see it it offers storage drivers as well.\nhope this helps.
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ANY data you consider to be important should be backed up.\nI have 2 RAID arrays that are nothing but backups.\nAs for your other question USB "stick drives" or pen drives usually have a MTBF of about 500,000 hours.\nTo put that in perspective, if there were only 2 sticks on the planet, and one failed after a million hours, and the other failed within the first hour, the MTBF would be 500,000 hours.
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Types of Hard Drives\n\nGo shopping for a new hard drive and you will be presented with a confusing spectrum of varieties. EIDE, SCSI, ATA, IDE, SATA, FireWire, and USB are some of the types you will see. All of these refer to the interface that connects the hard drive to the motherboard, so knowing what type of interface your motherboard supports is essential.\n\nThe most popular type of drive up until recently was EIDE but it is being replaced by SATA. EIDE (Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics) is actually the same as ATA, so any motherboard that supports ATA also supports EIDE and IDE. The hard drive is connected to the motherboard with a Parallel Interface. The performance on these drives is greatly enhanced if they can use DMA (Direct Memory Access) to give the hard drive direct access to memory.\n\nThe new standard for hard drives is SATA (Serial ATA) that provides faster data transfer and more convenience than EIDE. EIDE drives had to be configured in a Master/Slave configuration which meant that only two drives could be connected per channel. SATA does not have this limitation, and SATA drives can also be 'hot-swapped' - removed from the computer while it is running.\n\nSCSI is another efficient interface, but SCSI drives never gained much popularity in the home PC market and remain fairly expensive when compared to SATA.\n\nBuying a Hard Drive\n\nIf you are in the market for a new hard drive, you have to know what kind of drive your motherboard supports (SCSI, EIDE etc.) and the type of the file system your operating system uses.\n\n\nOdds are with the age of your system its EIDE
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well really depends on what kind of hardrives you have are they IDE or SATA?? sata has raid features on it so you can  also doesnt matter how much space yor disks have to spped up ur system it reallt matters on the system ram
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It doesn't have to be the EXACT same drive.  In reality it doesn't even have to be the same size.  BUT it is recommended they be the same type/size for best performance and to eliminate "waste".  What does need to be identical is the partition sizes on both drives. Another 7200rpm 160MB SATA HDD would be recommended in your case.
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The two most common RAID Arrays are RAID 0 (Data Stripping) and RAID 1 (Data Mirroring). Most modern motherboards can perform RAID 0 or RAID 1 (e.g., the nForce4 chipset has it build in, other my have a Silicon Image RAID controller). \n\nRAID 0 is making your PC think that the two harddrives are just one drive. The advantage is that both drives can be working simultaneously to read/write data, effectively doubling your read/write speed (but not your overall access speed). The down side of RAID 0 is that is one of the harddrive fail, you'll lost all data on the combined drives (no redundancy). I think RAID 0 is the only type of RAID array you don't need identical HDD's for, but I could be wrong.\n\nRAID 1 is making one harddrive mirror the other (in which you do need identical harddrives). Everything written to one hardrive is written to the other. If one harddrive fails, all your data is still functional on the other one. There is a decrease in performance because all read/writes have to be performed twice.\n\nStorageReview (http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200406/20040625TCQ_sp.html)has a good article talking about the benefits (or lack thereof) of RAID 0 for gaming systems.\n\nThere are many other types of RAID arrays (RAID 1+0, RAID 5, etc.). Webopedia (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html) has a decent definition of what they all are. The other Levels of RAID usually require a special controller card which can cost MUCHO $$$'s.
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I think this should help you better understand the issue\nhttp://www.techbuilder.org/recipes/59200981 \n\nAs a bonus to the article try to think about future: PATA (IDE) is the old technology and SATA is the new one. Which one you think will be there in 3 years? \nThe price is even between them at the moment or at least very similar. \nAs with anything in IT&C the limit is the price, so...go for what is newer, faster and, of course, better which in this case is SATA.\n\nEnjoy ;)
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Yes you can!!\n\nIDE and Sata channels both run completely separate interfaces and can work very well together.\n\nIf you're thinking of filling up with drives, I would recommend checking the output of the PC power supply.  Hard drives use quite a bit of power.\n\nAnother good tip for extra performance:  If you get 2 sata drives (same size) and use the sata raid 0 (zero) option, it will use both drives as one large volume.  It will also write data across both drives (striped) which means installed programs will run twice as \nfast - as it reads data from both drives at once.  Keep windows installed on the IDE drive, but move Windows paging file to the sata volume.  You will get an immediate and noticable performance boost with this option.\n\nHope this helps :)
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Sounds good, but I would make a suggestion...\n\nGet 2 of the HDD's and configure it in a RAID 0 for better read/write speeds.  Or get at least 2 more and configure it into a RAID 0+1 that would give you the speed benefit and provide data protection, too.\n\nMy system speeded up tremendously when I did that.  It once took about an 1.5 hours to copy a DVD movie.  After I configured my system with a RAID 0, the time was reduced to about 25 minutes.\n\nJust a thought.....
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there will be no range of distance that have higher data rate then 150 mbps, cause the fastest device that can take up that 14gb is the harddrive, and even fast drive like sata drive can only write at 6mb/sec, not to mention the limitations on No. of files making up that 14gb, bus, ram etc.
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Get the 500gb (7200rpm) serial ata hard drive with 8mb databurst cache.\n\nRAID 0 means that two or more hard drives have been combined and made to appear like 1 hard drive.  The problem is that if a hard drive has a 1 in 100 chance of failing, then a RAID 0 with 2 drives has a 1 in 50 chance of failing.  With a RAID 0, if any drive in fails that's part of the RAID 0, then you lose EVERYTHING on BOTH drives.\n\nRAID 0's are faster than single drives, but if this is an external drive using USB 2, then the limitation is the USB connection and a RAID 0 isn't going to be of much help.\n--------------------------------------------\nSo far, few people understand RAID 0.  RAID 1 is a mirror where the data is stored simultaneously on two hard drives so in case 1 fails, you have a backup.  RAID 0 is NOT a mirror - it's not TECHNICALLY a RAID (RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks).  There is NO redundancy in a RAID 0, which is why people who understand RAID understand why RAID 0 is NOT a true RAID - again, if either drive fails, you lose ALL your data on both drives.  \n\nThink of it like this: a RAID 0 is like having two books, book 1 has all the odd pages, book 2 has all the even pages.  If you lose either book, you no longer have a coherent story.  That's how RAID works - each drive gets one "page" of information... if one drive fails (one book is lost) then your files are corrupt and cannot be recovered.
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It sounds like you are using a new 7200 rpm drive and an old 5400 drive, this means that the pc will run using the slowest drive speed.\n\nThe best way is to back everything up using something like Acronis etc, then reformat the new drive and and reload the image on the new drive.\n\nOnce you have the image created, remove the old drive and install the new one as the primary drive, and make sure your using a 80 wire IDE cable to make best use of your new drive, you can tell if its 80 wire, they are flatter and have colored connectors at each end.
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well the msi661 is always a solid deal. but it is Matx not the full version. so your out 2 extra pci slots. it is also agp. sadly a fading tech. A quick glance at tigerdirect.com shows that the socket is older then pci-e. so you are out of pci-e \n\nhowever the Asus P4S800D-X SiS has everything you can think of including sata so you can expand your array farther then just the two drives. it's also a solid deal at 70.00$ However biostar,msi, and others also have solid performers. \na quick benchmark guide will show you which one is a better performer.
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As regards speed, you will only benefit from a faster hard drive (we're assuming that the 300gb hard drive is newer and therefore faster than the 20gb hard drive) if they are on different IDE channels.  Most motherboards have two IDE connections allowing 2 devices on each.  The IDE connections data transfer rate will be governed by the slowest device.\n\nRegards EDD
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check if you have SATA ports on yer motherboard..nowadays motherboards are pretty much labelled or atleast the cabinets have a diagram of the motherboard with labelling.. if ya have sata go for it..(if yer budget allows)\n\nthe basic diff between ATA and SATA is the RPMs