How many drives can a RAID 5 configuration support with one controller?
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I'm guessing it depends on the controller.
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I have been using 2 HDDs in one comp for several years. One unit is with the operating system and where most of the important activities are performed and the other one is for documents and backups and programs that could not be placed into the master.
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watever database server you r using, the database depends on the capacity of ur drive....u can either set the limit or admin would have set a limit...so it depends on the size of ur drive.
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Get 2 of these and hook them up in a RAID!\n\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144160
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Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks.  There are several levels of RAID such as RAID-0.  It is a system of using multiple hard drives for sharing or replicating data among the drives. Depending on the version chosen, the benefit of RAID is one or more of increased data integrity, fault-tolerance, throughput or capacity compared to single drives.\n\nThere are 8 levels of standard RAID going all the way from 0 to Concatenation all the way to level 7.    There are four levels of Nested RAID configurations and eight propietary RAID configurations.  All of them have strong points and weak points but the most common you will see on desktop computers is RAID level 0 which is enough for most consumers.\n\nSee Wikipedia for more information about RAID levels and what they do.
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Hard to say without knowing what you are using to control RAID.  Is it software raid controlled by OS?  Do you have a dedicated RAID controller?  How much memory on the RAID controller?\n\nGuessing you are using software RAID, I would say the reads and writes will be faster to 1 SCSI drive then to mirrored 7200 SATA drives.\n\nSee this article for comparison of the two:\nhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=41803&DisplayTab=Article
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software like nero burning rom can burn to multiple drives at the same time.  been there done that
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It can be, depends on if your hard drive is Parallel ATA:\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144122\n\n...or Serial ATA:\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822135106\n\nUnless your motherboad has both controllers.  Compaq's website was not helpful as to which type of drive is in the Presario 5000:\n\nhttp://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&dest_page=product&product=92867&dlc=en&docname=bph03429\n\nSo I can't give you a definite answer without more information.  Sorry!
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You can't "make" a hard drive an SATA2 drive.  It either was SATA2 when you bought it, or it wasn't.  You're talking about RAID 0, which can be done with either SATA1 or SATA2 drives.\n\nRAID will make a definite difference in throughput, but those weren't fast drives to begin with.  I'd recommend you spend $95 on a drive that's almost 3 times as big, and roughly 3x as fast: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140  Then, just use the Maxtor as either a spare drive, or as additionaly storage space.
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http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/multibooting.html\nhttp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=59318\nhttp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=69211 \nhttp://www.pcquest.com/content/dvd/103101105.asp // seems to be best answer
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Go to bios advanced bios setup\nThere you have an option to choose raid or sata
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1 but if you go to the system adminstrator area under drive management it might show thw 2 drives ( if software raid ), but if you are using hardware raid the raid card will handle LBS translation anf feed that info to the OS you see 1 drive.
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www.iomega.com/la/sp/products/hdd/sys_reqs_30fw.html \n\nwww.iomegasupportforums.com/phpbb2/viewforum. php?f=5&sid=ff4cb0a9b40d9cea7fa55785a579c2bf - 84k\n\nwww.iomega.com/na/products/ product_detail.jsp;IomegaProdComSession=2c1LFf0OassMdug2V6k9rorFN2GcZbeWlC4up7...
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I agree with Freman on this but there are partition managers that let you switch back and forth relatively quickly.  Just google 'partition manager' or something and you'll get a list of them.
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well depending on your motherboard and how well you know the inside working of the computer this is possible but the board must have ultra IDE and SATA ports and reguler IDE and each connector can have 2 drives on one connector except sata those are single drives.\n\nSATA - Serial ATA\n\nThe best place to get answers for this is to know how to work on a computer and to set it up but more help can be found for this type of thing at the below link.\n\nSorry for less help? it's just that people who don't want to go in to the technacalitys of this are lazy like me and are here to answer simple questions or some with not that much technacality to go in it.\n\nregister with this site and in the General Hardware area start a topic with the same question you asked here and you will get noting but technaclity answers here and there willing to answer because they like to show there skills off to new people :) so have fun!
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I don't think if your using a SATA harddrive, it has to be in RAID.  Below is a link for your motherboard.  You can download the manual.
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Medic was right, except he/she didn't realize you are trying to run IDE raid with two different IDE controllers.  You can't do that.  If your motherboard doesn't support IDE RAID, then you are going to have to use both hard drives through the PCI IDE controller, assuming it's RAID capable.  If it isn't, I'd go with 4 SATA drives.