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Upgrading to RAID (I'm a noob)

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Does anyone know if I can set up RAID 1 with an old motherboard? (Its about three years old). And if so, how do I set up RAID? I've been looking for some tutorials, and most were pretty unhelpful.

Thanks!
 
absolutely if you can answer yes to any of these


1. does the board have a RAID controller? (are there 4 IDE ports?)
or
2. do you have a PCI RAID card?
or
3. does your OS support software RAID?
 
I can buy a PCI RAID card. Will it work with an old motherboard?

If I buy a PCI RAID card with SATA and I buy two SATA hard drives - will SATA work even if my mobo doesn't support SATA?
 
yup
provided you buy a card compatible with 32Bit 33MHz PCI
(as opposed to a 64bit \ PCI-X or PCI-E card)

yup
however it will be capped at the PCI bus speed & bandwidth
not really an issue considering the light access your likely to have
youll get 133MB/s burst transfer speeds, as opposed to 150MB/s
which youd get with a SATA RAID controller intergrated with the chipset

realistically yout very likely not to even notice a difference
its nearly a moot point anyway with a RAID 1 mirror
since each drive is simply sending and recieving the data for a single drive
and then replicating it, youd be very very hard pressed to saturate the bus
 
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