ottothecow
Senior member
I am in need of an SATA card for a computer that is becoming a light duty fileserver.
I saw this card on amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/produc...5Fencoding=UTF8&n=172282&s=electronics and I see no reason why it wouldnt work with a single SATA drive.
My real question is could I connect two PATA drives in a raid-0 and have the SATA drive seperate. I worry that since it only has one PATA connector, it might be slow since both drives are on the same cable.
The motherboard MIGHT be able to do PATA raid but I doubt it (its a n440bx) and I thought it might give a little speed boost to have the boot drive be a raid-0 especially since the chipset doesnt support the fastest access (though, neither do the drives).
EDIT: Nevermind, I read closer on the amazon description (the via description wasnt as helpful) and it said raid was SATA only. I still might get a speed boost but the boot drives arent really that crucial or fast.
Can anyone point me towards a cheap internal SATA card that works well.(there are some of the silicon image ones on ebay but the seller gouges on shipping).
I saw this card on amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/produc...5Fencoding=UTF8&n=172282&s=electronics and I see no reason why it wouldnt work with a single SATA drive.
My real question is could I connect two PATA drives in a raid-0 and have the SATA drive seperate. I worry that since it only has one PATA connector, it might be slow since both drives are on the same cable.
The motherboard MIGHT be able to do PATA raid but I doubt it (its a n440bx) and I thought it might give a little speed boost to have the boot drive be a raid-0 especially since the chipset doesnt support the fastest access (though, neither do the drives).
EDIT: Nevermind, I read closer on the amazon description (the via description wasnt as helpful) and it said raid was SATA only. I still might get a speed boost but the boot drives arent really that crucial or fast.
Can anyone point me towards a cheap internal SATA card that works well.(there are some of the silicon image ones on ebay but the seller gouges on shipping).
