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RAID, IDE, Windows 7, and a motherboard...

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System Name Starlifter :: Dragonfly
Processor i7 2600k 4.4GHz :: i5 10400
Motherboard ASUS P8P67 Pro :: ASUS Prime H570-Plus
Cooling Cryorig M9 :: Stock
Memory 4x4GB DDR3 2133 :: 2x8GB DDR4 2400
Video Card(s) PNY GTX1070 :: Integrated UHD 630
Storage Crucial MX500 1TB, 2x1TB Seagate RAID 0 :: Mushkin Enhanced 60GB SSD, 3x4TB Seagate HDD RAID5
Display(s) Onn 165hz 1080p :: Acer 1080p
Case Antec SOHO 1030B :: Old White Full Tower
Audio Device(s) Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro - Bose Companion 2 Series III :: None
Power Supply FSP Hydro GE 550w :: EVGA Supernova 550
Software Windows 10 Pro - Plex Server on Dragonfly
Benchmark Scores >9000
I should have this board, along with a Celeron 430 that should do 3GHz without voltage bumps and a 2GB stick of DDR2 667 coming in within a few days to replace the cpu, motherboard and RAM in my Athlon2200 rig. Not bad for a $65 upgrade, eh?

Anyways, the hard drive in that rig is a 40GB IDE drive, which is obviously a bit small, and a bit slow, and I happen to have an identical drive laying around... and I wouldn't mind putting them on a RAID 0 setup to boost the lackluster performance in that area. It says right on the manufacturer's page that it does SATA raid, but this would be regular ATA raid... can it still be done? How do I go about setting the array up, if possible? I plan to use Windows 7, so do I still need to get drivers from somewhere? What kind of jumper settings do I use?
 
no offence but putting 2 peices of turd together wont help.


a 40gb Pata drive from years ago will be extreamly slow, somewhere around the 20-30mb read/write speed with high latency...

imo you should just find a decent sata drive cheap.





that being said, simply connect both drives to different IDE channels, (if it only has one then its not worth doing due to the way IDE works)


EDIT
If you have to set jumpers to enable raid mode you will have to look at your Manual for the motherboard.

boot into the bios and configure it to raid the IDE (if it can)

set the raid up

install windows its that simple.





i still feel strongly agenst running those drives it would be a lot faster with just newish Sata drive.
 
Well, in this case I can get some extra performance for free, rather than spending money on a sata drive that I'm not really going to be using... it's pretty much going to host a quake server, an unreal tournament server, world community grid, and a phone...
 
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