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David Lewis
Hi to all
I recently bought a new computer with an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe motherboard.It
has "support" for 4 SATA drives .My original intention was to use two SATA
drives in a RAID array which now I have scrapped in preference for 4 single
NON RAID SATA drives.
OK, but the vendor now tells me that 2 of the onboard controllers can only
be used for RAID so I would need to either daisy chain the non raid drives
to install all 4 , or buy a separate PCI SATA controller card.
1)Could this be correct i.e. would 2 of the Mobo's SATA controllers be only
for RAID?Or perhaps once set up for RAID you can't reverse it?
2)Don't you lose performance by plugging an SATA drive into a PCI bus?
3) By daisy chaining the SATA drives I may as well have a parallel ATA (IDE)
set up?
Thanks for any advice
I recently bought a new computer with an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe motherboard.It
has "support" for 4 SATA drives .My original intention was to use two SATA
drives in a RAID array which now I have scrapped in preference for 4 single
NON RAID SATA drives.
OK, but the vendor now tells me that 2 of the onboard controllers can only
be used for RAID so I would need to either daisy chain the non raid drives
to install all 4 , or buy a separate PCI SATA controller card.
1)Could this be correct i.e. would 2 of the Mobo's SATA controllers be only
for RAID?Or perhaps once set up for RAID you can't reverse it?
2)Don't you lose performance by plugging an SATA drive into a PCI bus?
3) By daisy chaining the SATA drives I may as well have a parallel ATA (IDE)
set up?
Thanks for any advice