what is a RAID/third party driver(s)?
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RAID is a system used in computers involving how the hard drive is used. It stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. There are different types, from RAID 0 to RAID 100 (10 + 0) that each mean slightly different things. Incase you care though, RAID 0 is striping your data across two hard drives so that its much faster to access your data, but also riskier. RAID 1 is Mirroring, which is just having two disks of the same thing for security reasons.\n\nBasically, if you don't know what it is you don't need it.\n\nAs for third party drivers, it could mean anything, but it usually refers to video card/sound card/keyboard/mouse drivers. When Windows asks it probably means installing it from a disk that came with it, which it pointless because you can just install it once Windows is done installing.
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You will simply need to purchase a PCI RAID controller card.
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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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Make sure that you RAID (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks) the hard drives. If you don't you will burn the hard drive very quickly. RAID also increases your speed. Get SCSI drive if you can afford them. SATA drives are ok, don't get IDE.
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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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Send them via email to someone who has a burner.  It will be time consuming . . .  You could get an Iomega Zip drive, they are laying around everywhere in offices these days, as nobody uses them much anymore.  (100 and 250 Meg drives)\nYeehaw!  A 1999 trick for 2006.
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when installing the o/s, there will be a prompt to hit f 6 to install the raid drivers and build the raid array
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Go to bios advanced bios setup\nThere you have an option to choose raid or sata
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try http://www.driverguide.com \nusername: drivers\npassword: all\n\nsearch it.. you should find what you're looking for
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yes you can, because i am doing it. for my comp i have a pci sata raid card that allows me to do this, some mobo's have an integrated sata and you can plug into there. plug in, power on, and go. of course with my sata hd i had to use a special program on cd that came with it to set it up properly. but no problems so far, nor do i expect any.
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It should tell you on the front of the drive.  Should either have a sticker or be engraved.  Looking in your hardware configuration is not necessary or valid for the most part.  What if you have installed the wrong drivers?  Your hardware will list it under whatever you've installed - not what it actually is.
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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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get Partition Magic. Powerquest the original makers sold out to Symantec. still the same anme there are other methods but PM is totally worth it if you use some flavour of windows.
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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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RAID stands for Random Array of Independant Disks. RAID is basically hard drives that run in cooperation with each other, using each one as a local disk.
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best thing would be to go t seagate's support site, and find out what they say you can do with it