What mobo do you have? I have that HD connected to a QDI Platinix i865G

Edit... read your last post.. basically, as your running raid.. you are running both HD's as one.. not true to say you would lose everything from both. Depends if you have partitioned them. IE.. if you lose your OS you wont automatically lose your second partition. Still, I have a 3rd and 4th drive just for backup :D

for benchmark purposes I have:

2 * 80mm fan in, 1 * 80mm fan out
QDI Platinix i865G Mobo.
P4C 2.60GHz @ 3.00GHz (HT Enabled)
1GB Twinmos DDR400 (2 * 512Mb dual channel)
Rocketraid SATA RAID card.
2 * Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 SATA 80GB (8Mb Cache) in RAID 0 (256k stripe)
1 * Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 SATA 80GB (8Mb Cache) Backup
USB2 External HD Enclosure with WD800JB 80Gb Disk
Creative Audigy 5.1 sound
Dlink 10/100 NIC
Geforce 4 TI4400 256Mb (PCI ATI rage for triple display)
MSI 48*CDRW
LG 52*CDROM

[Edited by Soulgirl - 9/1/2003 10:34:01 PM]

I've bought this Maxtor SATA 120Gb drive.

It has one data connector and 2 power connectors: a normal 4 wire block thing and a new thin power connector.

Can I use either power connector or do both have to be connected up?

Thanks, Kevin.

I just used the normal power connector on my Raptor.

normal 4 pin HDD power connector on my maxtor 160

cheers

sinky

Can a SATA drive be used as a direct replacement for a normal ATA drive, or does the motherboard have to support SATA?

You can get SATA controllers if the mobo doesnt.

either using the normal molex power connector or the power cable provided are fine. Do exactly the same job.

Turns out you can use either but not both as this can cause damage.

Anyway, bought another identical drive and configured them as one 240Gb Raid 0 volume. Set up like this, these things are lightning fast. Downside is if one drive fails, you lose everything!

Raid 0 is striped so part of every file is present on each disk as I understand it. I've just set up one 240Gb partition.

I have just built:
Abit IC7 i875 Mobo.
P4C 2.40GHz 800fsb currently @ 2.88GHz (HT Enabled) increasing to 3Ghz gradually (250Mhz clock, 1Ghz fsb).
512Mb Adata DDR500 PC4000 (2 * 256Mb dual channel) running 1:1.
Onboard SATA RAID 0.
2 * Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 SATA 120GB (8Mb Cache) RAID 0.
ATI 9600 Pro 128Mb.

Very impressed with it so far.

Adding other bits and pieces soon.

Yes.. striped accross both discs for faster execution and access.

Nice system so far. should be stable and speedy