Using IDE RAID on SATA board

[Crism]

I've been wondering this for a while so now I ask.

I have 2x 80GB 8MB Cache IDE Western Digital Hard Drives. They are on my IDE RAID Channels 3+4 on my IT7-MAX2 V2. If I upgrade my motherboard to one of the new ones with only SATA raid, can I just buy IDE-->SATA adapters or will I need something more?

 

[wizdum]

Yeah you can buy ide-sata adapters i've read about them somewhere but IIRC they are quite spendy.

 

[Crism]

Ok thanks. Anyone else?

 

[LED]

Some Mobo's have IDE PATA RAID built in along with SATA (ie DFI, Chaintech) so you may look @ that Avenue. (ie DFI Intel Lan Party B) as the converter are costly and bulky.

 

[WebDude]

I've run a couple of those WD's in RAID0 off a couple of sata mb's (using the Abit Seriell II converters). Works fine, plenty fast. Just don't expect to preserve an old Raid0 array when you switch over. Raid0 arrays are pretty controller dependent, in my experience, and don't transfer. So expect to start from scratch in building the array. But should be no problem otherwise.