Want to hook up 4 hard drives, will this work?

[Gundam]

Just built a new rig with an Asus K8V mobo. My system consists of 4 ide hard drives and 2 cd rom drives. However, being the dumbass as I am, I didn't realize the onboard RAID controller only supports RAID 0 OR 1 MASTER only.

However, my dillema is that I just want to run my 4 hard drives regularly and not deal with the raid bullshit. Can I just buy this card and hook up my extra hard drives?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...-102-007&depa=0

 

[Connoisseur]

yeah you can. RAID is a selectable option. it's not automatic.

 

[Gundam]

Yeah, I turned both raid controllers on in the bios, but it doesn't have a mode where I can just hook up 2 extra hard drives and run them reguarly.

 

[Lonyo]

Linky no worky.

 

[allanon1965]

yes you can get a pci ide controller card and hook up all 4 drives and they will work fine, i am doing that now, although its not with 4 yet....just 1 extra right now, but it works perfectly...

 

[Sheriff]

The Asus K8V has the Promise 20378 RAID controller which supports single SATA Drives as well so if you just want your IDE HD's for storage, what I would do is pick up an External Firewire/USB Case or 2 and put the IDE's (even CDRW's) in there then pick up 1 or 2 SATA HD's.

 

[Zepper]

You didn't mention whether your HDs were SATA or PATA. IAC, a Syba card of the appropriate type from dealsonic.com et al. should fix you up... I recommend Silicon Image based cards like the Syba for their unusual level of flexibility (e.g. the Syba PATA RAID card can support just about any IDE device ever made as normal drives plus do RAID 0,1,0+1 or JBOD when/if needed) and lower cost (said PATA RAID card was under $25 shipped last I looked) relative to Promise or HighPoint based cards.
.bh.

 

[corkyg]

To run w/o RAID as you asked, there is another option. Put your HDDs in the computer as many as it will take, and then put the rest in external USB 2 or 1394 cases. That will give you a lot of flexibility in that you can store data on the externals and then be able to move that data from one machine to another.