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Hey All,
I am going to setup my system in RAID1 for the first time in the next week or so and was looking for a little help/advice. I have two 1TB SATA HDDs for RAID, an SATA DVD drive and a third SATA HDD (can't remember the size but it's either 160 or 200 GB) that I'm thinking about running in the system as a drive for important backups. I just bought a few christmas presents for myself to upgrade the computer in my sig, one of them an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO MB. Anyway, last night after I got all the kids presents put together, I sat down and read through the MB manual and got to the part about setting up RAID. It says "Due to chipset limitation, when setting up any of the SATA ports to RAID mode, all SATA ports run at RAID mode together." This has gotten me thinking about a couple of things and I'm not sure if I'm understanding it correctly or if I'm just being a RAID noob. I've done a bit of google searching and can't come up with a solid answer to my questions so of course I turn to the [H]Forum for help
So, on to my questions...
Does this mean that every SATA drive I have set up needs to be in a RAID configuration or just that I'll be limited to the RAID setting in the BIOS (ie no AHCI or IDE mode for the other drives)?
Specifically, will I have a problem running an SATA DVD drive or the third SATA HDD by itself while running the other two HDDs in RAID1?
I'm thinking I'll be ok and just need to setup all of the drives correctly in the RAID config utility in the MB BIOS, but I just wanted to get an idea of what I'm in store for before I get started. Thanks in advance.
I am going to setup my system in RAID1 for the first time in the next week or so and was looking for a little help/advice. I have two 1TB SATA HDDs for RAID, an SATA DVD drive and a third SATA HDD (can't remember the size but it's either 160 or 200 GB) that I'm thinking about running in the system as a drive for important backups. I just bought a few christmas presents for myself to upgrade the computer in my sig, one of them an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO MB. Anyway, last night after I got all the kids presents put together, I sat down and read through the MB manual and got to the part about setting up RAID. It says "Due to chipset limitation, when setting up any of the SATA ports to RAID mode, all SATA ports run at RAID mode together." This has gotten me thinking about a couple of things and I'm not sure if I'm understanding it correctly or if I'm just being a RAID noob. I've done a bit of google searching and can't come up with a solid answer to my questions so of course I turn to the [H]Forum for help
So, on to my questions...Does this mean that every SATA drive I have set up needs to be in a RAID configuration or just that I'll be limited to the RAID setting in the BIOS (ie no AHCI or IDE mode for the other drives)?
Specifically, will I have a problem running an SATA DVD drive or the third SATA HDD by itself while running the other two HDDs in RAID1?
I'm thinking I'll be ok and just need to setup all of the drives correctly in the RAID config utility in the MB BIOS, but I just wanted to get an idea of what I'm in store for before I get started. Thanks in advance.