RAID controller on MB also support non-RAID ??

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See many of the mother boards support RAID on their SATA controllers. Is it
common for all these types of ports to also support non-RAID SATA drives?
 
Al Franz said:
See many of the mother boards support RAID on their SATA controllers. Is
it common for all these types of ports to also support non-RAID SATA
drives?
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Yes. The only thing those controllers do to support RAID is see 2 drives as
one or write simultaneously (almost) to both drives, mirroring one or the
other. Other than that, they're simply SATA controllers. They differ quite a
bit to add-in RAID controllers that do RAID 5 and have their own processor
onboard to take care of the overhead.
 
Al Franz said:
See many of the mother boards support RAID on their SATA controllers. Is it
common for all these types of ports to also support non-RAID SATA drives?
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Yes.

However, you may still need to install the RAID controller drivers and configure
the RAID BIOS for single-drive use.
 
Yes......... single drive use......... or two drives as singles.
Also called JBOD.
So basically on most you must pretend you're setting up a raid & then set
the type as JBOD. (Just Bunch Ordinary Disks) (if you don't believe me then
use Google for JBOD)
 
BruceM said:
Yes......... single drive use......... or two drives as singles.
Also called JBOD.
So basically on most you must pretend you're setting up a raid & then set
the type as JBOD. (Just Bunch Ordinary Disks) (if you don't believe me
then use Google for JBOD)
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FWIW, the Gigabyte K8NSC-939 enables simple IDE operation for each drive.
It allows you to choose with the drive is available for use in a RAID array
or it is available only as an IDE device. If a drive is set up as non RAID,
there is no further setup.
 
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