Can I raid 0 SATA and IDE hard drivers

[Salil]

Hello,
I have 3 drives of all different capacities and two of them are SATA and one of them is IDE. Can I RAID 0 them in a desktop to be get maximum speed. My motherboard is "ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard" . What software solution can I use to solve this problem

 

[VirtualLarry]

I think that the last motherboard that would let you RAID IDE and SATA together, was the NVidia Nforce 4 chipset, which had two IDE ports, four SATA ports, and RAID support.

Edit: Not to mention, any IDE drive is going to have an older, smaller-density set of platters. Which means that it would slow down any RAID-0 array that it was part of. You are better off just adding your two SATA drives to a RAID-0, and using the IDE drive for misc. file storage, or backup of the RAID array.

 

[groberts101]

it would have to be done with software raid in disk mgmt and would be non-bootable as a result.

Not to mention.. slow as hell due to that IDE drive pulling the others speeds down as Larry already mentioned. Also keep in mind that 2 sata drives running in AHCI mode for an OS volume will be faster than 3 mixed drives running in Windows software raid due to TCQ and NCQ support being leveraged.