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SATA raid using PATA drives : adapters?

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I currently have two WD2mb cache 7200rpm 100gb hd's
I use them with raid 0 on my abit kg7-raid.

My new mobo (DFI Ultra Infinity nf2) has 2 ide channels but 4 sata + sata raid.

obviously there sno PATA Ide raid.

are there adaptors thatwill let me plug in my two PATA hd's into the sata adapters and have them work perfectly and run sata raid?
 
that or actually it may be better if I just buy a cheap PCI contorller that supports two channel raid 0... anyone know any good cheap ones?
 
No need to buy a seperate raid controller when the one you will have will work just fine.

I run a raid setup with 2 40gb 8mb cache ata133 IDE drives on an Abit AN7 system that I use the convertors with. One is the Abit Seriellel that came with the NF7-S and the other one I baught at NewEgg.

I just ran Sandra and I got 44174kB/s speeds. That's not bad for 2 drives using a convertor on the SATA raid setup.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-999-111&depa=1

You won't see a whole lot of difference on these motherboards with built in SATA and using the convertors. That is unless they have the SATA built into the chipset because if it's over the PCI buss (like most are) or even a PCI card, the bandwidth of the PCI bus only allows for so much.

It was a LOT cheaper than buying all new SATA drives when these work just as good.
 
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