Is it possible to use both a SATA and an IDE hard drive in a RAID setup?

Question

I have a system with a SATA HD as it's primary but I also have two IDE HD's from an older system that I'd like to cannabilize and integrate into the new system. Is it possible to combine the three into a RAID setup (RAID 1 / Striped Data setup preferred)?

Answer 1

The person above me is absolutely wrong, a motherboard with both IDE and SATA connectors will read drives connected to both drives, it makes no difference. Might as well say your computer can't read a floppy if there's a HD plugged in, not so! I don't know if it will work in RAID but you can surely read date off one drive after booting to the OS on another.

Answer 2

Yes and no.



No beacuse which ever controller you use, Sata or IDE, will not recognize the other is installed. Say you have 2 sata and 1 IDE drive. The Sata drive will not "see" tyhe ide drive...and vice versa.





However, windows 2000 will do a software raid 5. Not sure about XP You would still have to have a single drive with the os installed. Say 4 drives, 1 would be os, the other 3 would be in Raid 5...

Answer 3

expensive Sir, You connect the DVD stress on to the mummy board sata. The difficult discs may nicely be linked to the mummy board by taking new cable having yet another slave contained in the cable. the relationship might want to be all started from difficult stress (C) then (D) ultimately to mom board second sata. Even I upgraded my pc with one extra difficult disc, as I defined above.