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Serial ATA II Raid 0

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curtisbouvier

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My motherboard is a ASRock-Dual SataII


I have two SATA ports, and one SATAII Port

I have 2 brand new Seagate 320GB SataII hard drives each with 16mb Buffer.

am I sh*t out of luck? I think I would need 2 SATAII ports to run raid...

Will these hard drives work in Sata ports even tho the hard drives them selves are Sata II?
 
Yes, the interface can be set to SATA by setting jumpers (or it might be done automatically) and you then put them both on the SATA controllers, there is no performance difference between the two. Some RAID controllers and setups will let you use different conrollers (ie PATA hard drives as well as SATA), but that's another story, why complicate it?
 
ahh yes, is ee the jumpers on my drive... limit it to 1.5 instead of 3

1 slighty off question... what exactly is the difference when having a hard drive with 16 mb buffer instead of 8?

when i go raid 0 here
thats like 32 mb buffer between the 2, I dont suppose these drives will have a hard time writing and reading 😛

I'm using a IDE 120 GB Western Digital currentl;y with an 8 MB buffer, and its Fast..
 
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