Can this MB do I what want?

[JCROCCO]

Looking at useing this MB with a P4 3.06 533fsb 1M processor. According to the specs of the MB, can I add (1) cd-rom, (1) dvd/cd r/w, (1) SATA 150 HD, (1) older EIDE Hard drive, and (1) 3.5 floppy. I Will use the SATA 150 as the C drive. I am most concerned about the IDE hard drive as I have it and would like to transfer it to the new computer, as a second drive. It is a western digital 120gig 8mb using a 40 pin connector. If I can transfer it, my next question would be will the data remain? The Setup says to run a program to install it. Any idea about this?

Asus P5ND2-SLI Socket-775 Motherboard

CPU Support
- Compatible with Intel® 05B/05A and 04B/04A processors Intel® EM64T/ EIST*/Hyper-Threading Technology
Chipset
- NVIDIA® nForce4? SLI Intel® Edition
- NVIDIA® MCP-04
FSB
- 1066 / 800 / 533MHz
Memory
- Dual channel memory architecture
- 4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support max. 8GB DDR2 667/533 non-ECC memory
Graphic Interface
- PCI Express x16
Expansion Slots
- 2 x PCI Express x16 - SLI mode: x8, x8
-2 x PCI Express x1
-3 x PCI PCI 2.2
Integrated Video
- N/A
Integrated Sound
- Realtek ALC850 8-channel CODEC
Integrated LAN
- Intel 82540EM Gigabit LAN controller
PATA
- 2 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33
SATA
- 4 x Serial ATA 3 Gb/s
IDE RAID
- RAID0, 1, 0+1, 5, and JBOD span cross Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drives
SATA RAID
- RAID0, 1, 0+1, 5, and JBOD span cross Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drives
USB 2.0
- Supports up 10 USB2.0 ports
IEEE 1394
N/A
Serial Ports
- 1 x COM connector (internal)
Parallel Ports
- 1 x Parallel
S/PDIF
- Coaxial/Optical S/PDIF out ports
Form Factor
- ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6"(30.5cm x 24.5cm)
Warranty
- 1Year

 

[imported_Seer]

You have 2xUDMA 133 channels, which means you can have up to 4 hard drives or dvd/rws, any combination there of. eg 2 harddrives, 1 dvd rw, 1 cd rom would work. You usually want to keep hdds on the same channel, and cd writers on the same channel, unless the board can run asynchronous udma (one device on the cable runs at a faster speed than the other) Most mother boards work better with a max of 2 HDDs on one channel and a max of 2 cd drives on the other.

Also, it has four SATA 3.0, which is backwards compatible with 1.5

It will support a max of 1 Floppy drive.

Your data will remain on the hard drive. If its a windows install, however, I strongly recommend saving what files you want and then reinstalling. Windows doesn't like it when you switch mobos.

 

[Peter]

The days when the slower device on the cable dictated the speed are over ... in fact, the last chipset with that limitation was Intel's PIIX3 from the mid-Pentium era.

However, in a master/slave setup, drives can't operate in parallel. An ongoing request to one drive blocks access to the other until the first request has been completed. In other words, IDE drives do not share bandwidth.

What that means is, you should keep drives that are operated at the same time on separate cables. Obvious cases are DVD writer and the HDD it's getting its image files from, system and scratch harddisks for Photoshop users, that kind of thing.
Now since "on the fly" copying of CDs and DVDs is not a good idea anyway, putting the opticals together on one cable usually works quite OK.

So, one disk on SATA, one on IDE, and the opticals on the other IDE cable.