Installing extra SATA Hardisk to a RAID system

[sfkong]

Hi. Hope someone can answer to my simple question. Hope it is just
Yes or No answer and hope there's not too much configuratio
required... fingers crossed

I have a PC system with 4 SATA port (1,2,3 and 4)

Now I already have 2 SATA hardisk (connected to SATA1 and SATA2), the
are 2 x 160Gbyte WesternDigital, configured to run RAID0

Can I buy just a single SATA drive, say a new 300Gb Maxtor, and the
connect it to SATA3

Will it auto detect and appear as a new drive in Windows? I don't wan
it to be RAID, I just want an extra drive for backup. I want to forma
it as NTFS

And later on in the future, can I then buy another extra drive an
connect it on SATA4 and run as another drive (but not RAI
configuration)

Cheers guys

 

[Poly-poly man]

Hi. Hope someone can answer to my simple question. Hope it is just a
Yes or No answer and hope there's not too much configuration
required... fingers crossed

I have a PC system with 4 SATA port (1,2,3 and 4).

Now I already have 2 SATA hardisk (connected to SATA1 and SATA2), they
are 2 x 160Gbyte WesternDigital, configured to run RAID0.

Can I buy just a single SATA drive, say a new 300Gb Maxtor, and then
connect it to SATA3?

Will it auto detect and appear as a new drive in Windows? I don't want
it to be RAID, I just want an extra drive for backup. I want to format
it as NTFS.

And later on in the future, can I then buy another extra drive and
connect it on SATA4 and run as another drive (but not RAID
configuration)?

Cheers guys!

It depends on what sata controller you have. For some: Yes, quite easily,
actually. For others: well, it takes TONS of work.

Try it.

poly-p man

 

[sfkong]

This is what it says on my PC system: 'Intel(R) 82801FR SATA RAID
Controller' if that what u meant

Fingers crossed then...

I was asking cos to make sure before i buy any hardware or if i should
buy 2 hdd

Cheers!

 

[sfkong]

This also appear on my system spec 'Intel Matrix Storage Technolog
ICH6R' controller.. I wonder which one is the detail for my SATA rai
controller

 

[Poly-poly man]

This is what it says on my PC system: 'Intel(R) 82801FR SATA RAID
Controller' if that what u meant

Fingers crossed then...

I was asking cos to make sure before i buy any hardware or if i should
buy 2 hdd

Cheers!

On the ICH6R, it's no problem. The drives are handled in the chipset, and
it's a pretty good one. I was looking at some intel documents, and you
should be fine

hih,
poly-p man

 

[sfkong]

cheers poly-p man :

i was looking at the Intel papers on the chipset as well.. bu
couldn't understand it.. haha.. thanks