RAID question

[Bablos]

Hi There...

A quick & really dumb question for all you RAID experts out there!

If I buy a new motherboard with a raid facility, do I need to attach two drives and create a RAID array in order to use it, or could I just connect one drive to it and use it as merely an extra IDE connector?

Hope someone can help.

 

[Taurus]

one drive is fine. i have 3 harddrives, but none of them are in a raid configuration currently. just using it for extra ide channels.

pretty sure it's not recommended that you connect cdrom's to raid channels, though... just harddrives.

 

[Qumahlin]

No you can use the raid ports like a normal ide port, although there have been alot of complaints that things don't always work well but it's a case by case situation.

 

[loppdawg69]

only some raid setups allow that my asus a7v333 only supports hard drives on the raid channels anything else will not get recognized.