Serial ATA question...

[Ryan Atici]

Hi folks,

The motherboard I am thinking of getting is ASUS A8V-Deluxe. The motherboard
has two serial ATA connectors with RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring),
and another two serial ATA. I am not thinking of using any RAID system such
as mirroring on Serial ATA hard drives. When I have 3 different Serial ATA
hard drives, can I use them as normal without using any RAID 0 or RAID 1
feature?

ASUS A8V-Deluxe also offers IDE hard drive connections. Even though I am not
thinking of using any IDE hard drive, just out of curiosity, I like to raise
a question.

If I choose to have two IDE hard drives and two Serial ATA hard drives in my
new system, which hard drive has the priority at boot-up, meaning (which one
is recognized as Primary Master)? The IDE hard drives or Serial ATA hard
drives?

Last but not least, does using IDE and Serial ATA hard drives in the same
system cause any complication?

Thanks...

 

[Ron Reaugh]

Hi folks,

The motherboard I am thinking of getting is ASUS A8V-Deluxe. The motherboard
has two serial ATA connectors with RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring),
and another two serial ATA. I am not thinking of using any RAID system such
as mirroring on Serial ATA hard drives. When I have 3 different Serial ATA
hard drives, can I use them as normal without using any RAID 0 or RAID 1
feature?
Yes.

ASUS A8V-Deluxe also offers IDE hard drive connections. Even though I am not
thinking of using any IDE hard drive, just out of curiosity, I like to raise
a question.

If I choose to have two IDE hard drives and two Serial ATA hard drives in my
new system, which hard drive has the priority at boot-up, meaning (which one
is recognized as Primary Master)? The IDE hard drives or Serial ATA hard
drives?

BIOS settable.

Last but not least, does using IDE and Serial ATA hard drives in the same
system cause any complication?

Nope.