mortimersnerd

I need to upgrade my hd space. I am currently using all 6 of my sata ports and a new mobo w/ 8 is not an option.
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This is my current Setup:
SATA:
2x320GB SATA RAID0
4x Asus 20x Dvd drives
ATA:
2x 500GB ATA
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I am looking to upgrade to 2x750GB for storage but they will not be in RAID.
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1. Can I just get a RAID card and use them without RAID?
2. Should I get a RAID card and use my 2x320GB on it?
3. What RAID card ~$50 would be good? I know its still software RAID, but I dont have the money for a real controller.
4. What other ideas do you have?

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heretic

Something like this is your cheapest option. If you're going to do software raid, you might as well leave the 320s on your mobo.

mortimersnerd

So, I can pick that up and then run the 2 750GB on them but not in RAID?

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uh... what is with the 4 optical drives?

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whe3ls

id put the optical drives on the card

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Video editing and production. 4 optical drives (cost about $100) is a lot cheaper than a DVD copier ($500+). I burn an image from one HD to two DVD drives and then a copy of that same image from a different HD to the other two DVD drives. I can burn at 14x x4 DVDs

Just 2 of the 4? I dont think it will hurt the performance. but I could be wrong.

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heretic

Correct, no raid with that card. There are cards (like this) that DO have raid on them in that price range, but I can't speak to their quality. You can also choose between PCI and PCI-E depending on which fits your setup better. You can choose to not use the RAID features on any given RAID card.

whe3ls

all of them if you can

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So I think I will just get this and but all my dvd burners on it. Thanks for the help. I will post results once i get them

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What is the largest partition that Vista can have?

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