Hard drive power

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Carl G

Hi guys
I have a DFI lanparty sys. board (865PE)
I rhave 4 hard drives hooked up to it , all SATA drives.
It uses 2 for regular SATA drives and 2 for Raid setup.
I don't use raid , but i use the drives as storage drives. I don't set up a
Raid setup,
i just turn it on in the bios and load the driver and then they show up in
windows as 2 regular drives.
If i turn the raid of in the bios does that also turn off the power to the
raid drives ?
Or does it just turn off the SATA (IDE) controler.
I don't enter them every day so i thought it would be nice, and easier on
the drives if i could turn them off.
Thanks
 
If you disable the controller in the BIOS,yes it shuts them down,you
shouldnt see them in xp.If RAID and the drives are in the computer,why
not set up a RAID configuration !!!
 
Hi Andrew
I have had Raid setup on my pc, I am just a home user well past my prime.
I just play around on my pc , try all kinds of things with XP. Great
operating system.
I have no need for Raid,but have installed it a couple different times just
to check it out.
I got a camcorder last year and could use the storage more then raid.
Thanks a bunch.
 
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