RAID 0/1 between SATA and EIDE drives?

[ChillyWillie]

A year ago I had bought the Seagate Barracuda 200Gb IDE drive. This week for the same price, I bought the identical drive, but the SATA version.

My question is, now I have two identical drives with different interfaces:

ST3200822A 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
ST3200822AS 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive

I believe my motherboard (DFI Lanparty UT nF3 250gb) supports RAID 0, 1, or 1/0 between SATA and/or IDE drives. Does anyone have any experience, or opinions, on how will it work if I implement RAID between these two drives? Should I ditch the IDE drive and get another SATA of the same model if I want RAID?

Thanks,

Jay

 

[ChillyWillie]

Correction... Make that the following two devices:

ST3200822A 200GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM
ST3200822AS 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM

 

[TankGuys]

I would skip RAID all together. I also don't *think* you can RAID with a split IDE/SATA but I could be wrong... I've just never tried.

RAID 0 will give you a very small performance increase, but doubles your chances of losing your data.

RAID 1 increases your data security, but takes a very small performance hit.

So unless you either have extremely sensative data (which you should just do backups anyway and not rely on RAID) or have worthless data that you're willing to risk for a few percentage points of performance increase, I'd stay away from RAID. Just check out some of the articles on this very site for more information.

 

[Valkerie]

Originally posted by: TankGuys
I would skip RAID all together. I also don't *think* you can RAID with a split IDE/SATA but I could be wrong... I've just never tried.

RAID 0 will give you a very small performance increase, but doubles your chances of losing your data.

RAID 1 increases your data security, but takes a very small performance hit.

So unless you either have extremely sensative data (which you should just do backups anyway and not rely on RAID) or have worthless data that you're willing to risk for a few percentage points of performance increase, I'd stay away from RAID. Just check out some of the articles on this very site for more information.

the drives have to be exactly identical with interface type - SATA/IDE

 

[Blain]

"NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA and Parallel ATA"... Rock On Dude!

 

[ChillyWillie]

That's a link to the nF4 board, which does support cross interface RAID. My nF3 250Gb board doesn't have that statement, so I'm assuming it's a feature added in nF4 chipsets. Nevertheless, I'll try to see if my BIOS will let me configure it when I get the HD in from newegg.

Thanks everyone!

 

[ChillyWillie]

Guess I should have read the specs closer... That clause *is* in the nF3 250Gb specification sheet:

NVRAID supports spanning across Serial ATA and Parallel ATA