Peripheral Happy--Will it Work?

[DaMutha]

I currently have a Asus P4T533-C motherboard, and a 330W PSU, with the following add-ons:

Highpoint RAID IDE Controller card (2 120GB WDs attached)
Pioneer DVD-ROM Drive
Lite-on CD-RW Drive
Floppy disk drive

I am contemplating adding the following components, and I'm wondering (a) if it's possible to get them all connected (assume I have the space in the case) and (b) if so, how?

Sony combo DVD-RW/+RW drive
200GB WD hard drive (for back-up purposes)
ZIP drive

Please note the following: 1. I would prefer to keep all 3 media drives---I like having a faster DVD player and faster CD burner. 2. The ZIP drive is the least important---I can live without it. However, I've got it from my old computer, and I've got an extra bay for it.


Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[LED]

Hook both you HD's to the RAID running independently and the Optical Recorders on the Master IDE's with the Pioneer and Zip as Slave then you should be in...I run 3 Opticals on mine with WD SE as my Master IDE HD followed by the High Point set-up in RAID...alls good


Edit= I do not know if the Highpoint CC will allow seperate IDE HD devices but my onboard will

 

[DaMutha]

Sorry if I am displaying my ignorance, but what exactly do you mean by "Hook both your HD's to the RAID running independently"? Do you mean, if possible, that I should leave the 2 120GBs as masters on the 2 RAID channels and add the 200GB as a slave on one of the RAID channels (but not add the latter to the array)?

I have a sneaking suspicion that the Highpoint won't allow me to do that.

If I can't do it, should I forget the Zip and put the 200GB in its place?

 

[LED]

Seperate means no Hd's Arrayed (mine does 2 on-board) ...If your card won't do more then 2 seperates then my thoughts for solutions are (you must give up RAId0 array:

Config 1:
JBOD (Just Bunch Of Disks) on Highpoint card...All the WD IDE's= 440gigs
Optical Drives and Zip on IDE's

 

[DaMutha]

Killing the RAID array is low on my wish list. Do you see a problem with my last proposal (omitting the Zip and putting the 3rd HD on one of the motherboard IDE channels)?

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: DaMutha
Killing the RAID array is low on my wish list. Do you see a problem with my last proposal (omitting the Zip and putting the 3rd HD on one of the motherboard IDE channels)?

Not @ all and that would be my personal choice as you can always add the Zip later via USB if wanted...Hence (similar to my set-up)

Primary IDE =200GB WD HD (Master) followed by Pioneer DVD
2ndary=Writers (Most frequently use 1 would be Master) so you can copy anything off the HD and/or Optical on the fly