possible to raid1 a sata/pata drive?

skanky

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stupid question i know but if i have 2 drives of the same size but one is SATA and the other is PATA, can i raid them?
 
I suppose it would matter what the controller supports. i.e. My DS3 has 2 raid ports, and these are both purple SATA ports, the other 4 sata and the ide are seperate controllers. There may be a card out there which supports both ide and sata, but as to native support on a mobo, it doesnt seem likely.
 
In Linux you can, you can have component drives of any type in a Linux RAID array, even network devices.
 
Ive heard of it in passing. Some of the main benefits of raid are gained from having similar responce times from the drives, that seems unlikely with mixed types like this
 
There are some Silicon Image based mobo controllers which support RAID across PATA & SATA but they were some of the very early ones. With SATA taking a bigger market share they've been superceded by newer SATA only RAID controllers. The one on the A8N is SATA only.

Windows supports software mirroring of disks but only in the Server versions so that's probably out. You could set the two disks up as single disks and then use something like the SyncToy powertoy to keep the contents in sync on a regular basis.
 
rpstewart said:
Windows supports software mirroring of disks but only in the Server versions so that's probably out.
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Good point there, although I'm pretty sure that XP Pro can do mirror/stripe Dynamic Disks (not on the boot drive, however) and Server differs by additionally being able to do RAID-5? I remember a couple of years ago hexediting my XP Pro's dmboot.sys/dmconfig.dll files to fool the kernel that the Windows Server features were present, to create a RAID-5 array over iSCSI targets.

Not on Win XP Pro atm to check... but could be a good way. OP: What OS are you running?
 
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