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Ive got a maxtor 80 gb harddrive with an ata connector, what im wanting to know is, can you combine an ide and sata hard drives with an asus k8v se deluxe motherboard?

thanks

You can use both at the same time, but not RAID them together.

Cheers
Cameron

Yeah, I've got the same motherboard, and it's kind of finicky with RAID.  If you want to set up a hard drive or two in RAID, you'll need two drives, and the new drivers from the ASUS website, I can't remember exactly where they are, but I remember the ones on the disk didn't work for me.

But your missing the point It dosnt matter, as he cant raid them together anyway.

Cheers
Cameron

I know, I was saying if he wanted a RAID setup, as you pretty much answered his question already. I figured I could  help as I went through the same thing a couple of months ago, and it was a horrible headache, until I figured out the right way to do it.

Ive got a maxtor 80 gb harddrive with an ata connector, what im wanting to know is, can you combine an ide and sata hard drives with an asus k8v se deluxe motherboard?

thanks

Yes.

ok thanks guys, one more thought can i raid ide drives together? e.g. instead of getting a 160gb or 200gb hard drive can i get 2 80 gigs and raid it with my 80gb drive (3x80gb ide raid?) If i can what will the performance difference be? and will that total 240gb of storage?

edit: or would 2x80gb sata hard drives be faster?

Thanks again

Like this

80gb + 80gb = 160gb RAID 0

plus

80gb = backup drive for important data

You need to determine how much data you want on the raid 0 array and then have a backup drive large enough to hold any data you require should the raid array fail. In the example above, you lose 80gb to backup space, it depends on how valuable your data is, and also how often and how much data you need to back up.