what is a raid controller?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_controller
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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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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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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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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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SATA is the newer tech.  SCSI has been around for a long time.  \nFor a desktop SATA2 is the way to go.  The most bang for the money.  Also, ignore 10,000 rpm or 15,000 rpm.  they only way a person will ever know the difference in harddrive speed is if they use bench marking software.  Hard disk controllers and hard drives themselves have on board memory called cache that helps move data at faster rates.\n\nSCSI is specifically for servers or video editing solutions.  It moves data at a constant rate were as SATA and the older ATA work at high speeds by using burst technology.
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Get 2 of these and hook them up in a RAID!\n\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144160
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Im not sure which one you need but here are the files.\n\nSCSI RAID Controllers\n1. Adaptec PERC 320/DC\n2. Adaptec U320 HostRAID Controller\n3. Adaptec U320 SCSI RAID 0 or 1\n\nSerial ATA\n1. Adaptec CERC SATA1.5/6ch\n2. Adaptec SATA HostRAID Controller\n3. Maxtor 6V080E0, 80GB, SATA, 3.0Gb \n4. Maxtor 6V160E0, 160GB, SATA, 3.0Gb \n5. Maxtor 7V250F0, 250GB, SATA, 3.0Gb \n\n---------------------------------------------------------------\nYou can download these below.
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If this the RAID array is going to be for your primary boot volume and you're simply looking for top loading speeds, the Raptors are your best bet.  If you're looking for maximum capacity for your dollars, get the 7.2K drives.
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In Windows NT and Windows 2000 networking, the domain controller (DC) is the server that responds to security authentication requests (logging in, checking permissions, etc.) within the Windows Server domain. It is the server that essentially makes networking (at least in a secure function) possible.
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if you want to know about RAID or SCIS go for wikipedia.com and you can also refer howstuffworks.com
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If you mean, can you combine both SATA and PATA drives in a single RAID, then the answer is yes, but not a hardware RAID.\n\nThere are two kinds of RAID--hardware and software. Hardware RAID is implemented by a hardware RAID controller, which is either part of your motherboard, or an add-in card. Software RAID is implemented by the operating system. Software RAID is slower than hardware RAID, but if you have a reasonably fast processor, it's not using terribly much slower. If you have a slow processor, it will be slower, and more importantly, it will put a big load on your processor and make everything run slowly.\n\nTo the best of my knowledge, there are no RAID controllers that will RAID an SATA drive with a PATA drive, but you can set up whatever RAID you want with software RAID. If you already have your drives in hardware RAID (and intend to keep them that way) then when you do this, you will be RAIDing the already-existing hardware RAIDs, since a hardware RAID is treated as a single drive on the "software level".\n\nHere's some info on software RAID in Windows:\n\nhttp://www.techimo.com/articles/index.pl?photo=149\n\nHere's some info on software RAID in GNU/Linux:\n\nhttp://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html\n\nHere's some info on software RAID in Mac OS X:\n\nhttp://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/softraid3.html\n\nYou can find abundant info on doing software RAID on these and other operating systems by entering "software RAID" together with name of the operating system in a search engine.
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Master control board?
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No, RAID 1 only provides fault tolerance, not performance increases. Performance increases come from striping such as in RAID 3 or RAID 5.
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You can plug it into any computer provided that you have a raid controller to plug into any pci slot.  The bios won't see them, but you can still access them via the provided driver.
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pretty awesome, but i would get two SATA2 drives and stripe the (raid0) for better disk performance.
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It depends, if you already have a setup of windows, then Files may be lost. Its 100% easier to assign RAID when first installing your operating system to prevent loss of files.