I have 4 disks on two IDE controllers.  I have a pci IDE controller that holds one disk.  I need to add an SATA to my SATA motherboard controller in a raid configuration.  How does one set Raid up because im not sure I understand Raid.  My disks are different capacities.  Any info would help.  email me if you want
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Medic was right, except he/she didn't realize you are trying to run IDE raid with two different IDE controllers.  You can't do that.  If your motherboard doesn't support IDE RAID, then you are going to have to use both hard drives through the PCI IDE controller, assuming it's RAID capable.  If it isn't, I'd go with 4 SATA drives.
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Above answer is wrong. This "1TB disk" consists of two 500GB disks. Either you can use them as RAID 0 (2x500GB = 1TB) or as RAID 1 (mirrored = 500GB, on both disks is exact the same data).\nUntil now i've never seen a PC hard disk larger than 500GB.\nThese are the largest ones\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2010150014+1035307886&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=14
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Sata-1 would be a good place for the primary drive. When you expand add to 2, 3 , etc.
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You need to verify that your controller supports hot-swap.  Some early controllers did not support this.  Also I think many cheap on-board controllers may not support it.  Also remember you can't hot swap your OS drive.\n\nBut the short answer is no, raid is not required to have a hot swap sata drive.
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There are hardware adapters that you can plug two drives into, making them appear as one drive to the host computer.  If you are trying to fake-out a Netgear box that's probably what I'd try.  \n\nSome of the file-sharing appliances include a "backup" function that will duplicate your primary drive nightly to a secondary drive of the same size.  While not RAID 1, it would limit your risk of loss.\n\nThe CHEAPEST way to do this would be soft-RAID on your PC...but I doubt you'd like the performance.  A close second would be to stick any of the Promise-based IDE RAID controllers into your desktop and attach the drives to it.
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Re-boot and go into the Bios and see if they are being recognized there.  If not, try a different power connector from the power supply. It sounds like the drives aren't even getting power. It's hard to believe both drives could go bad at once.  Even if the IDE Controller went bad, the drive tray will still open as long as it's getting power.
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Is it in a scsi raid array, or with HD overi think is 300gb., in that case you will need advanced HD drivers. download from google with search HD name and size.
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I am sure this is one of the current best gamming machine configuration.  The only thing keep it from perfection is consider 2 GB of ram instead of 1.\n\nFor the HD, I would add 2 seagate 160GB SATA 2 and set up raid 0.\n\n\nI gave this 9.5/10
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I am not 100% sure.\n\nLest start here.Most 32 bit PCI slots have a maximum theoretical transfer rate of 133MB's (I.E. the maximum theoretical transfer rate of IDE)\n\nIF your motherboard's PCIslots run at 64 bits and your sata card can handle it then the maximum theoretical bandwidth is double, namely 266MB/s.\n\nIf you want true speed go for a drive that spins faster than 7200rpm like the WD Raptor. Otherwise get a raid card, 2 identical harddrives and set them up for striping.\n\nAt 133MB/s  there will be little notible differenence in speed. Sata 1's performance gain is hardly noticeable at present. However if your motherboard uses a budget chipset then maybe it would be better to get a Sata card with a better chipset on. The sata card will still be slightly bottlenecked because your motherboard is using a budget chipset but things should be noticably faster still.\n\nI benchmarked an 80 GB sata I drive on an budget SIS chipset, budget Via chipset, medium to highend Intel and a medium to highend Nforce 4 chipset. The sis and the via never got near 30 MB/s while the Nvidia and Intel scored 61 MB/s, under the stress test( it's all about the chipset).\n\nI am no expert so there might be one or two technical mistakes above.\n\nIf you get a sata card, go for something with that uses an Uli chipset, if you can, otherwise anything will do fine.\n\nAs for harddrives 8 or 16 MB cache, 7200rpm(10000rpm is very expensive). Access time shouldn't be nore than 8.0 ns to 8.5ns (lower is better)
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the short answer is the HD you have will connect to the motherboard you have.\n\nthe long answer is that there are 2 standards of connectors\n\nSata = Serial ATA \nPata = Parallel ATA used to be called only ATA before the pata was introduced few years ago.\n\ndevice that is not clearly marked sata is most probably pata.\n\n[edit]\n\nthe best speed of read and write you will get from sata 2 which is 300 MB/S.\n\nA good solution will be to connect 2 HDD in what is called raid 0 (striping)
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Hi There,\n\nIt´s actually Redundant Array Of Independant Disks but sometimes inexpensive is used. For a more detailed summary of RAID see link below.\n\nSATA stands for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. You can get a more detailed summary of this below also.\n\nHope This Helps!
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From your question, I don't find any problem on it. Your disk is working fine. Things to take note - when installing new hard drive, especially SATA disk, Windows 98/Me/2000/XP requires additional driver to help it read the hard disk's chipset.\n\nIf you self-assembled your system, you should notice there's a floppy drive/driver CD OEM from your motherboard supplier. Install the driver while your SATA disk still attached. Use the User's Manual to guide yourself when installing the driver. Make sure you successfully install the driver. After wards, everything will be fine.\n\nIf you bought your system from the vendor, there's a bit different. They should equip you with software/drivers/documentation for your self-keeping. If you are missing any of these, please consult your vendor. Perhaps you may request them to configure the SATA for you - with a little charge of course!\n\nHope this help.
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I suppose this is a second hard drive you just have installed. If the drive is hooked on the same cable like the first drive, check the jumper on the disk. It should be set to slave.\nYou have 2 opportunities:\n1. Set the jumper on the 1st drive (the drive where the OS is installed) to master, and the jumper of the 2nd drive (the new one) to slave.\n2. If you have a ribbon cable with a black and a grey jack, connect the black jack with the 1st drive and the grey jack with the 2nd drive. When doing so, you can set the jumpers on both disks to "cable select" or otherwise also to master and slave like described under 1.\n\nIf the drive is connected to another cable, the jumper have to be set to master.
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You will simply need to purchase a PCI RAID controller card.
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If you want Server1 to have a RAID array and server2 to have a RAID array, and each one's RAID is separate from the other, use Disk Administrator which you can find in Computer Management.  It has some pretty simple and straightforward tools to prepare a raid set. \n\nIf you want Server1's RAID array to be somehow linked to Server2's and back and forth, then you really want clustering which requires shared storage such as a SAN or NAS, and I believe is not supported in SBS)\n\nThe link below is for Windows 2000 Advanced Server but the tools are the same for SBS
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u Need an ide raid card that plugs into pci, my pair of 160's is power
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If the hard drive supports SATA, then that is by far the best interface to use.  It is faster than IDE.\n\nRAID is not an interface type, it is a type of configuration that can make data storage more reliable by duplicating data on the hard drive or adding error correction information.  Unless you are using this drive for business purposes, you probably don't need to worry about RAID.