What is a raid driver?
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RAID stands for Random Array of Independant Disks. RAID is basically hard drives that run in cooperation with each other, using each one as a local disk.
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What OS are you running?  You shouldn't need a driver for your hard drive.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sata\nhere's two articles that are really informative.
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Yes you can!!\n\nIDE and Sata channels both run completely separate interfaces and can work very well together.\n\nIf you're thinking of filling up with drives, I would recommend checking the output of the PC power supply.  Hard drives use quite a bit of power.\n\nAnother good tip for extra performance:  If you get 2 sata drives (same size) and use the sata raid 0 (zero) option, it will use both drives as one large volume.  It will also write data across both drives (striped) which means installed programs will run twice as \nfast - as it reads data from both drives at once.  Keep windows installed on the IDE drive, but move Windows paging file to the sata volume.  You will get an immediate and noticable performance boost with this option.\n\nHope this helps :)
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You need to verify that your controller supports hot-swap.  Some early controllers did not support this.  Also I think many cheap on-board controllers may not support it.  Also remember you can't hot swap your OS drive.\n\nBut the short answer is no, raid is not required to have a hot swap sata drive.
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http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm\n\nhttp://www.komando.com/tips_cat.asp?catID=11\n\nNote:  Another HDD diagnostic you can run is=newSeagate Technology SeaTools  = http://seagate.com/support/seatools/\n\n\nhttp://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Diagnostics\n\nhttp://www.pcpitstop.com
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the drive uses a Lexar chipset.  You should be able to use the link located at the website below. (the link is "Jumpdrive Windows 98 SE Drivers")
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The answer depends.  If you have two hard drives in your computer that are the exact same size (i.e. both 80 gigs) you should choose raid and configure your system in a raid 1 format.  What this does is basically give you a fail safe if one hard drive crashes.  \n\nIf you only have one hard drive in the computer I would  choose IDE, raid would serve no purpose.
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Maxtor has recently been bought out by Seagate, iam not sure what this will mean for the brand as a whole.\n\nMost drives on the market today are fairly reliable. I would however reccommend that to stay away from a brand called Exelstor.\n\nIf you have got some money to burn the Western digital WD X 150 is a good buy (15000 rpm's, 16MB cache, seek time is abit high though and i don't thinks it's going to be all that quiet)\nhttp://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=190   \n\nOn the IDE end go for anything Seagate Barracuda that runs at 7200.9 rpm, has an 8MB buffer with a low seek time, 8.5ms shouldn't be too bad.
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DLT is a high speed, high capacity tape drive (80 Gig/tape), used to back up servers and databases.  The cost is usually prohibitive for SOHO applications.
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You shouldn't need a separate driver if you're using Windows XP, ME or 2000.  The mass storage drivers are included in these operating systems.\n\nJust plug it in, and it should be recognized as an additional drive.
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Hi There,\n\nIt´s actually Redundant Array Of Independant Disks but sometimes inexpensive is used. For a more detailed summary of RAID see link below.\n\nSATA stands for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. You can get a more detailed summary of this below also.\n\nHope This Helps!
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Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks, a category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives are used frequently on servers but aren't generally necessary for personal computers. \nThere are number of different RAID levels: \n\nLevel 0 -- Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance: Provides data striping (spreading out blocks of each file across multiple disk drives) but no redundancy. This improves performance but does not deliver fault tolerance. If one drive fails then all data in the array is lost. \nLevel 1 -- Mirroring and Duplexing: Provides disk mirroring. Level 1 provides twice the read transaction rate of single disks and the same write transaction rate as single disks. \nLevel 2 -- Error-Correcting Coding: Not a typical implementation and rarely used, Level 2 stripes data at the bit level rather than the block level. \nLevel 3 -- Bit-Interleaved Parity: Provides byte-level striping with a dedicated parity disk. Level 3, which cannot service simultaneous multiple requests, also is rarely used. \nLevel 4 -- Dedicated Parity Drive: A commonly used implementation of RAID, Level 4 provides block-level striping (like Level 0) with a parity disk. If a data disk fails, the parity data is used to create a replacement disk. A disadvantage to Level 4 is that the parity disk can create write bottlenecks. \nLevel 5 -- Block Interleaved Distributed Parity: Provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information. This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Level 5 is one of the most popular implementations of RAID. \nLevel 6 -- Independent Data Disks with Double Parity: Provides block-level striping with parity data distributed across all disks. \nLevel 0+1 – A Mirror of Stripes: Not one of the original RAID levels, two RAID 0 stripes are created, and a RAID 1 mirror is created over them. Used for both replicating and sharing data among disks. \nLevel 10 – A Stripe of Mirrors: Not one of the original RAID levels, multiple RAID 1 mirrors are created, and a RAID 0 stripe is created over these. \nLevel 7: A trademark of Storage Computer Corporation that adds caching to Levels 3 or 4. \nRAID S: EMC Corporation's proprietary striped parity RAID system used in its Symmetrix storage systems.
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Is it in a scsi raid array, or with HD overi think is 300gb., in that case you will need advanced HD drivers. download from google with search HD name and size.
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The windows XP CD (including SP1 & SP2) recongnizes and installs Win XP on SATA hard drives WITHOUT RAID configuration. If you have a RAID configuration, then RAID should be configured first for the CD to recognize the hard drive. \n\nNOTE: Win XP SP2 CD recognizes hard drives which are not RAID configured also.
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No, RAID 1 only provides fault tolerance, not performance increases. Performance increases come from striping such as in RAID 3 or RAID 5.
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Yes. It will support SATA II drives though I'm not 100% certain the SATA controller will offer SATA II capabilities. An advantage to ALL Intel motherboards is that even the first generation boards with SATA works with SATA II drives! \n\nAs for performance, you won't see a difference between SATA I & II without running a RAID array.