AMD Phenom Upcoming Board (RD790) - RoundUp

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Originally Posted by T2k

I'm curious: is there anyone out there who uses more than, say 3-4 SATA drives?
I mean from 3 drives it makes much more sense to buy an almost noiseless gigabit NAS box w/ RAID for $400-500 and keep it running 24/7 as your all-purpose server (besides serving my file server needs I stream music, movies etc from mine).

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Using 5 here and i'd gladly trade those 2 IDE connectors for 2 more SATA.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but done we need a floppy to load XP drivers?

As for the IDE channels, it probably depends on what hardware you have. Personally, I need at least one for cdrom/dvd stuff and would hate to see them go completely. Other than that, I dont really see the benefit of having one vs two. I can't imagine there would be much of a cost benefit. So why not leave it at two.

I could also use more SATA channels, but I cant see why you'd have to get rid of the IDE channels to do that.

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Originally Posted by PhilDoc

Correct me if I'm wrong, but done we need a floppy to load XP drivers?

As for the IDE channels, it probably depends on what hardware you have. Personally, I need at least one for cdrom/dvd stuff and would hate to see them go completely. Other than that, I dont really see the benefit of having one vs two. I can't imagine there would be much of a cost benefit. So why not leave it at two.

I could also use more SATA channels, but I cant see why you'd have to get rid of the IDE channels to do that.

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not anymore

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Originally Posted by nn_step

not anymore

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Not even when you're installing the RAID controller at the initial install of XP? If not, how? I'd like to know as it's the only reason I still have a floppy.

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Originally Posted by THE JEW (RaVeN)

Not even when you're installing the RAID controller at the initial install of XP? If not, how? I'd like to know as it's the only reason I still have a floppy.

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are the SATA controllers that you Native?
If yes, Then you will be the exception to the 99% rule
if no, what do you expect

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Originally Posted by PhilDoc

Correct me if I'm wrong, but done we need a floppy to load XP drivers?

As for the IDE channels, it probably depends on what hardware you have. Personally, I need at least one for cdrom/dvd stuff and would hate to see them go completely. Other than that, I dont really see the benefit of having one vs two. I can't imagine there would be much of a cost benefit. So why not leave it at two.

I could also use more SATA channels, but I cant see why you'd have to get rid of the IDE channels to do that.

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Yes you do, unless you slipstream the driver onto your install disc.

Myself I have a perfectly good 160gb IDE drive, and IDE DVDRW, I see no reason to replace them. I would like to be able to put them on seperate channels.

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Originally Posted by funnyperson1

Yes you do, unless you slipstream the driver onto your install disc.

Myself I have a perfectly good 160gb IDE drive, and IDE DVDRW, I see no reason to replace them. I would like to be able to put them on seperate channels.

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Its been a while since I've run an IDE hardrive, but irrc, you need to have them on separate channels to ge the best performance. I wouldn't want to replace it either and I wouldn't want to have to buy another card just to use it. I agree, just leave it at two IDE channels. If you don't like them and hate the cables, then just don't use it, I don't see the problem