PATA and SATA hardrives together

[Satguru]

Can I hook up an SATA hardrive into my system with a PATA HD? I have the SATA connectors on MB.

 

[jmdeathsquad]

yes

 

[imported_rod]

Yeah, sure. But you may not be able to set-up a RAID if that's what you wanted.

RoD

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: rod
Yeah, sure. But you may not be able to set-up a RAID if that's what you wanted.

"NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA and Parallel ATA"

Derek Wilson - Jan 24, 2005: "The fact that NVIDIA's RAID can span across all of the devices in the system (all 16 SATA 3Gb/s and the 4 PATA devices from the 2200) is quite interesting as well. Performance will be degraded by mixing PATA and SATA devices (as the system will have to wait longer on PATA drives), and likely, most will want to keep RAID limited to SATA."

 

[corkyg]

Yes. I have 4 Seagate 120 GB Barracudas installed - 3 PATA and 1 SATA. They love each other.

 

[F1shF4t]

Yes, i have 5 drives, 3 SATA and 2PATA, working fine for me.

 

[Satguru]

Thanx, people, I was going to buy another PATA, but realized I had SATA on board and wasn't sure of compatability- Dashawn