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Am planning to set up an IDE RAID array using the Soyo Dragon Plus mobo with the Promise Fasttrak100-Lite chip and 2 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X 60GB Ultra ATA/133.
My questions are:
1. Does the Promise FT100 Lite chipset allow a RAID 0 array with more than 2 drives? Not actually intending to do this (yet!) but it leads to my 2nd question.
2. Assuming I am using only 2 drives, isn't the preferred method to put them each on their own channel? Is there a performance/data integrity advantage?
3. I was considering using rounded cables for airflow purposes and b/c this is a moded case. But, if each drive is on its own channel and I am using 2 separate cables, I would prefer not to have a 3rd connector on the cable and for them to be pretty short as the mobo IDE connectors are very close to the drive cage. <b> Has anyone seen rounded cables w/only 2 connectors? Does anybody else see this as a problem/disadvantage to setting up a RAID array with rounded cables (i.e. lots of extra cable drooping about)? </b>
Am thinking of just using regular ATA100 ribbon cables and folding them out of the way, but thought I would run this by the group and see what kind of answers/suggestions I got. Thanks in advance!
My questions are:
1. Does the Promise FT100 Lite chipset allow a RAID 0 array with more than 2 drives? Not actually intending to do this (yet!) but it leads to my 2nd question.
2. Assuming I am using only 2 drives, isn't the preferred method to put them each on their own channel? Is there a performance/data integrity advantage?
3. I was considering using rounded cables for airflow purposes and b/c this is a moded case. But, if each drive is on its own channel and I am using 2 separate cables, I would prefer not to have a 3rd connector on the cable and for them to be pretty short as the mobo IDE connectors are very close to the drive cage. <b> Has anyone seen rounded cables w/only 2 connectors? Does anybody else see this as a problem/disadvantage to setting up a RAID array with rounded cables (i.e. lots of extra cable drooping about)? </b>
Am thinking of just using regular ATA100 ribbon cables and folding them out of the way, but thought I would run this by the group and see what kind of answers/suggestions I got. Thanks in advance!