Moker Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 ok, currently I have an AsusA7N266e, AMD XP2100, Ram is DDR but I'm unsure of the speed, I have 1 Western Digital 30 gig HD (partitioned to 2, 15 gig drives, C&F), 2 Western Digital 100 gig HD's (no partitions, D&E), 1 cdrw. ok, I want to be able to use my dvd rom, but with the setup I have I'll need a type of raid setup to be able to keep everything and incorporate the dvd player, and this means I'll need a new mobo. Currently all HD's are NTFS. If I get a new mobo, I'm going to have to fdisk the C & F drives, to get them so I'll be able to format them (right??). This is the first time since switching to NTFS that I'm doing a re-load of the system. I plan on getting either the Asus A7v/s 333 or the Soyo SY-KT333 DRAGON Ultra (Platinum Edition), along with pc2700 ram. How easy is the raid to set up? Will I be able to keep and use the 30 gig HD with raid and still use the full potential of the 100 gig drives? Or should I just get another 100 gig drive to use in place of the 30 gig one? Thanx for taking the time to read this, and hopefully it made sense to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caustiK Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 ok, I want to be able to use my dvd rom, but with the setup I have I'll need a type of raid setup to be able to keep everything and incorporate the dvd player, and this means I'll need a new mobo.why will you need a new mobo, or even raid? just add a pci controller card (or raid controller if you really want it)Currently all HD's are NTFS. If I get a new mobo, I'm going to have to fdisk the C & F drives, to get them so I'll be able to format them (right??). if these aren't in raid, why would you format them? if you are going to format, you don't have to fdisk them so long as you're using the same file system (NTFS in your case) i believe... How easy is the raid to set up?not very - just make sure it's enabled in the bios or put the pci card in - go into the raid bios on startup (ctrl+h on mine), choose which hd's and what number you want (raid 0 is probably what you're lookin for) - fdisk/format and go (or just boot into windows and format would be easier than fdisk'ing)Will I be able to keep and use the 30 gig HD with raid and still use the full potential of the 100 gig drives? yes hope that helps :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moker Posted August 5, 2002 Author Share Posted August 5, 2002 Originally posted by caustiK why will you need a new mobo, or even raid? just add a pci controller card (or raid controller if you really want it) sorry, but I can add a pci controller card and put the dvd rom on it? It's not that I want to go raid, it's that I knew of no other way to get more than 2 devices per channel. If I can just add a controller card, and plug the dvd into that, then I'm all set. Guess I'll go google for a while Thx! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caustiK Posted August 5, 2002 Share Posted August 5, 2002 yep that sounds like what you need if you're just trying to add another device to the 4 you already have - pci controller is the way to go :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 A good RAID controller costs around the same amount as a new mobo. go for a new mobo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedr0 Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 Originally posted by caustiK Will I be able to keep and use the 30 gig HD with raid and still use the full potential of the 100 gig drives? yes Wrong. He will be able to use it, but the two larger disks will be shrinked to be 30 gigs if he sets an array with all the three disks. Use the primary master for the 30 gigs drive and set the two 100 gigs drives in RAID. BTW, configuring RAID is very simple. Anyway, if you need help ask me. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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