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More info?)
I don't have a lot to add to other posts, but...
SATA drives usually can be used singly. (I believe that the answer is
"always", but I don't know about every mainboard.)
"Somebody" was probably thinking of RAID. It is usually available with
controllers for SATA drives, and a pair of drives is required for the two
commonest forms of RAID (RAID 0, striping for performance, or RAID 1,
mirroring for data security). There is no requirement to use SATA drives in
RAID, though.
I'm not familiar with nForce4 boards, but you'll probably have to install
the RAID drivers for the onboard SATA controller (using F6), even if you
will not be using RAID. (This assumes that you're installing Windows XP.)
If you have time, study the manual, which may be available for download
(www.msi.com.tw). (I don't see one for the K8N Neo 4 SLI, but there is one
for the Neo 4 Platinum SLI.)
HTH.
Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
<katekukku@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I am planning to buy an AMD 64 bit system, with MSI K8N Neo4 SLI as
> base.
>
> Now somebody told me that SATA hdds work only in pairs.
> Is that true? Will I have to buy 2 SATA hdds or a single one will do?
>
> Thank
>