Serial ATA HD's

[NickBrown7804]

I currently have two 40 gig SATA hard drives set up in a raid format (level 0). I

'm wondering if I can use another 120 gig SATA HD for bulk storage. Or if the computer wont let me.

Please help me before the time is up on my time to return it.


Thank You

Nick

 

[Elbatrop1]

There should not be a problem with that. On your motherboard, you probably have some SATA ports for RAID, and some for non-RAID. For your 120GB HD, connect it to the non-RAID port

 

[NickBrown7804]

How do i know which one is which?

The MOBO has 6 SATA plugs does it really matter?

I was thinking if the computer can only raid pairs or in even numbers it may not let me format the third drive.

Which could be ok but if it doent let me set up the Bulk Storage drive then im still back at square one.

 

[Elbatrop1]

Are the SATA plugs different colors?

Also, is your RAID array a software array (setup through Windows) or a hardware array (setup through CMOS)?

 

[NickBrown7804]

All the plugs are black there is no difference in them.

I haven't actually set it up yet but reading through the instuction book it said that during the bios setup it says select that hard drives to put in a raid array and then go from there.

That is what throws me off.

 

[Elbatrop1]

So you should be able to select your 2 40GB HDs keep the 120GB drive unselected.

 

[NickBrown7804]

alright hopefully it will work.
Thanks for the help man.

If all else fails anyone need a 120 gig SATA HD?

 

[Elbatrop1]

Woo! I will take one.