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Serial ATA
I am looking to buy a serial ATA hard drive and I assume I need a controller
card as I don't think my motherboard has serial ata connections. RAID controller cards appear to be cheaper than a serial ata contoller so if i just bought a RAID card and serial ata hdd would this work or would I need a serial ata host card as well? Thanks in advance |
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On Wed, 19 May 2004 12:41:25 +0100, "Paul" wrote:
I am looking to buy a serial ATA hard drive and I assume I need a controller card as I don't think my motherboard has serial ata connections. RAID controller cards appear to be cheaper than a serial ata contoller so if i just bought a RAID card and serial ata hdd would this work or would I need a serial ata host card as well? Thanks in advance Maybe Im not understanding the question but you defintely need a SATA card for SATA hard drives. Last time I checked I think the Silicon Image SATA controller cards were also RAID cards too. And I think I saw them cheap at Ebay as Ive posted - one of the FEW honest good deals on Ebay. There were some venders selling them and maxtor cards etc. Usually if you wait around near the end of the auction prices jump to fairly lousy levels which makes the added risk of Ebay not even worth it. Id rather get it at newegg no hassles. But final prices for the cards seemed to be reasonable way under newegg etc and when I bought my sata converters I got them with no hassles from a vendor there. Go to ebay and search Silicon Image and youll see "serial ATA (SATA) Raid cards" with buy it now $14 to 20 prices. Im not vouching for the cards OR the vendors. Do your own research there. |
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I have seen a card on the ebuyer website:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=60610 The reason I was asking was as I thought it would be better to have the option to use RAID if I wanted to and this RAID card is cheaper than a SATA card. With this card would I simply be able to plug an SATA HDD into it with out the need for any other hardware? My alternative is to not bother with the RAID option and go for a card like this: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=55943 Again would a card like this be as simple as plugging in and a little bit of setup? Thanks for your help " wrote in message ... On Wed, 19 May 2004 12:41:25 +0100, "Paul" wrote: I am looking to buy a serial ATA hard drive and I assume I need a controller card as I don't think my motherboard has serial ata connections. RAID controller cards appear to be cheaper than a serial ata contoller so if i just bought a RAID card and serial ata hdd would this work or would I need a serial ata host card as well? Thanks in advance Maybe Im not understanding the question but you defintely need a SATA card for SATA hard drives. Last time I checked I think the Silicon Image SATA controller cards were also RAID cards too. And I think I saw them cheap at Ebay as Ive posted - one of the FEW honest good deals on Ebay. There were some venders selling them and maxtor cards etc. Usually if you wait around near the end of the auction prices jump to fairly lousy levels which makes the added risk of Ebay not even worth it. Id rather get it at newegg no hassles. But final prices for the cards seemed to be reasonable way under newegg etc and when I bought my sata converters I got them with no hassles from a vendor there. Go to ebay and search Silicon Image and youll see "serial ATA (SATA) Raid cards" with buy it now $14 to 20 prices. Im not vouching for the cards OR the vendors. Do your own research there. |
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On Wed, 19 May 2004 13:48:01 +0100, "Paul" wrote:
I have seen a card on the ebuyer website: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=60610 The reason I was asking was as I thought it would be better to have the option to use RAID if I wanted to and this RAID card is cheaper than a SATA card. With this card would I simply be able to plug an SATA HDD into it with out the need for any other hardware? My alternative is to not bother with the RAID option and go for a card like this: Thats just an ATA card not SATA , it does have raid though. If you bought a SATA HD it wouldnt connect to it , which is way more expensive last time I looked than IDE but who knows maybe there are cheap deals now I havent looked recently only saw one in an ad that was gross. It was a dinky 30 gig for about he same price as a 120 gig ATA . http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=55943 Again would a card like this be as simple as plugging in and a little bit of setup? Thanks for your help If you want SATA and raid at a later date then you have to get a card that say SATA + RAID. Ive got one built into my board but am using two IDE HDs with adaptors on the SATA controller. You need something like this : http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=55942 |
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Hey Trent,
Thats a pretty funny quote you have there!!! Edward El Paso, TX "Trent©" wrote in message ... On Wed, 19 May 2004 12:41:25 +0100, "Paul" wrote: I am looking to buy a serial ATA hard drive and I assume I need a controller card as I don't think my motherboard has serial ata connections. RAID controller cards appear to be cheaper than a serial ata contoller so if i just bought a RAID card and serial ata hdd would this work No. or would I need a serial ata host card as well? You can get a combo card. But...if yer gonna get a 7200 rpm SATA drive, I wouldn't waste the money. The only SATA drives that are worth gettin' are the Western Digital Raptor 10,000 rpm drives...and they ain't cheap, per byte. But they're worth every penny of it! If yer gonna get a 7200 rpm drive or a 5400 rpm drive, then go for the RAID controller...for whatever reason you think you need one. Have a nice week... Trent© Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed! |
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