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Rococo · 03-31-2005, 02:11 AM

I'm looking to buy a 200g drive. Currently i'm using up all the IDE slots on my board, 2 hard drives and 2 burners.

I'm using an asus p4p800 which supports raid and has SATA ports.

With the addition of the new drive, can I just hook up to a SATA port with the IDE left the same, or is it more complicated than that?

What would be the smartest way to setup my new drive? I've never tried sata or raid, but i'm willing to go for it if there's an improvement in performance.

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Rococo Insane	I need more storage! few questions about setting up something new.. I'm looking to buy a 200g drive. Currently i'm using up all the IDE slots on my board, 2 hard drives and 2 burners. I'm using an asus p4p800 which supports raid and has SATA ports. With the addition of the new drive, can I just hook up to a SATA port with the IDE left the same, or is it more complicated than that? What would be the smartest way to setup my new drive? I've never tried sata or raid, but i'm willing to go for it if there's an improvement in performance.