IDE raid 0 question

[M3at]

I have a question

I've never set up raid before. My motherboard says it supports raid0 and raid1.

I want to set up two IDE's, both 80GB western digital 7200rpm drives in a raid0. From what I gather, I will need a controler card? I can't tell if there is anyway to run raid0 on my mother board with the on board ide's, but for some odd reason, I thought I could. I've looked on through the manual and didn't see anywhere that stated anything about jumper settings or how to enable it in the bios.

Anyhow, this is my motherboard

If I need to buy a controler card, what card is good to get? I don't think I want a hardware card which has the coprocesor on it because I don't plan on raid5 so at this point, I'm only looking for software types of raid controler cards.

Also, from what I understand, the performance gain from IDE to Raid0 is around 15% if not more. yes/no?

Thanks for your help

 

[WebDude]

On the spec's for your mb (from the link you provided) it says:

Serial ATA Interface
Support 2 serial ATA plus 1 ATA133
RAID O or 1 is supported
RAID function works w/ATA133+SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D

Your board has the Promise 20376 controller built in. That controller has 2 sata ports and one IDE. You can run a variety of drives in Raid 0 or 1. Two sata drives would work well off this controller in a raid 0 configuration. You could hook up two IDE drives off the IDE connector, but they would have to be configured as master and slave (you only get one IDE channel). I think such an arrangement would defeat the purpose of a raid 0 arrangement, although it would work well as raid 1 (mirroring for redundancy). You should have gotten a separate booklet with your mb about setting up a raid array off the Promise controller.

 

[M3at]

Thanks man. That makes sense. I'll have to look through my materials to see if I have a booklet on this.

 

[M3at]

another quick question. Is it possible to set up raid0 with one serial ata and one IDE drive? They are both 80GB drives with 8MB cache and 7200rpms.

Thanks

 

[WebDude]

I've not tried it but the manual says you can.

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: M3at
another quick question. Is it possible to set up raid0 with one serial ata and one IDE drive? They are both 80GB drives with 8MB cache and 7200rpms.

Thanks

If you are going to do that than I recommend a PATA to SATA adaptor and run them both off of the SATA controller.