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More info?)
I've been running a pair of the 36gig Raptors in a RAID0 array for 9 months
now running the system 24/7 without a single problem.
The Raptor RAID is used for the OS (Windows XP Pro)
I have two more Seagate 160gig SATA drives in another RAID0 array for data
storage.
Yes, all you need is a SATA controller card either a RAID controller or a
simple SATA controller.
"Jeff Ingram" <ingramje@wctel.net> wrote in message
news:c893tn$frjf$1@news3.infoave.net...
> Umm.......I could if I installed a Serial ATA controller card, right?
>
> Sorry for posting to this group. I only thought that other power users
> might be poster here too.
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> Jeff
>
> "Cerridwen" <cerridwen@celticnet.com> wrote in message
> news:c892p1$m0h$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Jeff Ingram wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Hey, I've got a Dimension 4500, 2.8 Ghz Pentium IV. Anyone have any
> > > experience with Western Digital's Serial ATA 10,000 RPM Raptor
> > > drives? I was considering getting one. At first I considered the
> > > 75gig drive but then I thought my only use for it would be as my
> > > system drive, XP would be installed on it and not much eles. So now
> > > I'm reconsidering getting the smaller 36 gig drive.
> > >
> > > I'm looking for other opinions of this drive. Anyone have this drive?
> > > Likes/Dislikes? Recommend any other drives that are faster (Ha,
> > > faster than this 10,000 rpm drive)?
> > >
> > > Thoughts? Opinions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jeff
> >
> >
> > You cannot plug a 10,000rpm S-ATA drive into a bog-standard IDE
interface,
> > as the maximum speed they are designed to handle is 7,200. That system
> does
> > *NOT* have dedicated S-ATA ports, they are bog-standard IDE and, as
such,
> > don't have the bandwidth for a 10K drive. I can't say whether you'd do
any
> > damage to the drive, or the board, but it certainly wouldn't recognise
it.
> >
> > The Raptor is currently the fastest - and best - S-ATA drive out there,
> but
> > it is only to be used in systems with dedicated S-ATA ports. A S-ATA
> > interface is backwards compatible with IDE, but you cannot make a
> > bog-standard IDE interface forward compatible with a 10K drive.
> >
> > You'd be wasting your money, and possibly damage your system - as well
as
> > the drive.
> >
> > In future, I suggest you post queries like this to alt.comp.hardware,
> which
> > can be found on your ISP's server, as this question has nothing
whatsoever
> > to do with Windows XP, other than you'd be installing it on said drive.
> But
> > they will tell you much the same as I already have - you cannot install
a
> > 10K S-ATA in that system.
> >
> >
>
>