SATA or RAID?

[tdean]

im confused, i was gonna get the MSI K8N Neo Platinum for a server im building. The board suppords raid and sata... what is the difference? i wanted raid for the system partition and raid 5 for the data. should i go with ide raid or sata drives?

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[KrazeIke]

raid is a completely separate thing. there is ide, sata, ide raid, and sata raid. it doesn't really matter if you pick ide or sata at the moment.

 

[jammydodger]

SATA is a type of interface (Serial ATA) as opposed to PATA (Parellel ATA) which uses those nice big 60wire flagt cables that we all know and love.
You can use RAID with either type of interface, but to use SATA RAID you need SATA hard drives.

I would be very suprised if your board supports RAID5, most boards with built in RAID only support RAID 0 or 1.

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512Mb PC4000
2x120Gb 7200.7 in RAID0
Waterchill KT12-L30
Abit AI7
Radeon 9800Pro
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[tdean]

ok guys, thats what i thought. ive been away from the game for a bit... thanks. for raid 5 i was planning on adding a raid card. i just wanted the raid 1(?) onboard.

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[jammydodger]

RAID1 on board will be fine.

<font color=blue>P4c 2.6@3.25
512Mb PC4000
2x120Gb 7200.7 in RAID0
Waterchill KT12-L30
Abit AI7
Radeon 9800Pro
</font color=blue>

 

[blah]

Epox 875P board has RAID5 on board (i think)

..this is very useful and helpful place for information...

 

[Crashman]

Your board supports not just RAID, but also MIXED RAID using both SATA and IDE drives! That kind of flexibility is unbeatable and hasn't even been matched by other companies yet. SATA doesn't provide any performance increase yet, but the fastest ATA drives (Raptors) are only available in SATA.

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[tdean]

thanks for the info crash. i think i will be taking your other recommendation (ABIT "IS7" i865PE Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU -RETAIL) which has the sata raid too. i cant believe how these boards have advanced over he past year. the nForce3 board will be my next private purches but im gonna go with the Abit for the server im building. figured that, a P4 3.0 cpu, a gig or pc3200 ram and i'll use the onboard raid for the system partition and im getting a 3ware escalade for raid 5 for the data partition. i'll probably get 5 wd 80gb "special edition" drives. man, this hardware stuff is getting fun again.

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[sjonnie]

The HPT374 chip supports RAID5 but all XOR calculations are offloaded onto the system. With a single processor system that sucks bigtime. Real RAID5 cards have a dedicated onboard XOR engine.

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