eSATA raid 1 setup help

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eddie500

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My father wants a 2 external hard drives for a raid 1 setup. Since I don't have a ESATA port I will need to buy an adapter card.

Some questions:

Will the esata adapter card work together with my motherboard sata harddrives/controller card? like I can have 3 internal hard drives and 2 external drives, for a total of 5?

Can I buy any 2 external eSATA hard drives and hook them up to the controller card and run them in raid?

I had trouble setting the motherboard sata controller to AHCI mode, boot problems in Win XP. Will I need this in ACHI mode for an easta raid setup?
 
You don't really need a adapter "card", just an eSATA bracket that hooks up to your internal SATA ports. Well, unless your motherboard isn't set to use (or doesn't support) RAID.
 
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