J
JM
Please excuse if this is a silly question, but I can't seem to understand
the interchangeability of the terms "sata" and "raid." They are used almost
as synonymous. But isn't "sata" a bus/transport technology which
technically has no relationship to "raid," which is a storage scheme?
The reason I bring this up has to do with the frustration I experienced
tonight replacing my IDE hard drive with a SATA one. I've put in dozens of
IDE drives, and for the most part it's a painless experience that requires
very little in the way of extra effort, preparation, etc. However, with my
new SATA drive, I couldn't figure anything out better than burning a FLOPPY
DISK and using that to load the "RAID" drivers from my motherboard
manufacturers website. I found at least two problems with this: 1) No
floppy drive on my laptop, which was the only computer with internet access
and thus able to download the "RAID" drivers, and; 2) No floppy drive in the
desktop computer that was getting the new SATA drive.
So, what am I missing? Why did I load "RAID" drivers to get serial ata
functionality? And why on earth have we moved to a hard drive bus
technology that requires such an awkward installation?
jm
the interchangeability of the terms "sata" and "raid." They are used almost
as synonymous. But isn't "sata" a bus/transport technology which
technically has no relationship to "raid," which is a storage scheme?
The reason I bring this up has to do with the frustration I experienced
tonight replacing my IDE hard drive with a SATA one. I've put in dozens of
IDE drives, and for the most part it's a painless experience that requires
very little in the way of extra effort, preparation, etc. However, with my
new SATA drive, I couldn't figure anything out better than burning a FLOPPY
DISK and using that to load the "RAID" drivers from my motherboard
manufacturers website. I found at least two problems with this: 1) No
floppy drive on my laptop, which was the only computer with internet access
and thus able to download the "RAID" drivers, and; 2) No floppy drive in the
desktop computer that was getting the new SATA drive.
So, what am I missing? Why did I load "RAID" drivers to get serial ata
functionality? And why on earth have we moved to a hard drive bus
technology that requires such an awkward installation?
jm