Asus P4C800 E-Deluxe and Three SATA Drives

[baldyguy]

I currently have an Asus P4C800 E-Deluxe board and I’m running Windows XP Pro, Service Pack 2. I have 1 WD Raptor 74GIG on SATA1, and I also have a Seagate 160GB on SATA2. Both of these drives are separate and non-raid.

I’m thinking of getting a Seagate 200GB SATA Drive and putting that hard drive in SATA RAID1. Is this possible? I want this to be a separate SATA drive (non-raid). How can I go about doing this?

 

[LS6TA]

You can but the array capacity is the size of the smaller drive. Meaning about 40gb of space will be wasted. If your looking for gaming performance, the raid 1 won't provide enough of a gain over the Raptor to make it worth while.

 

[twajetmech]

Yes you can use the SATARAID1 with a non raided drive, just go into bios and set the raid option to IDE instead for the promise controller (pg 4-20 in the manual) There are no limitations to the size drive you can install. Then you'll have 3 drives just as you want them. I suggest you use the sataraid1 port for storage, since the promise controller (sataraid1, sataraid2) share bandwidth with the pci bus, so don't put the OS on there either
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