Re: SATA PCI card - this one ok?
- From: Andi <reply.to@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:32:50 +0100
In article <dacqi19pi67u6k6hic739d036bg7sh6q33@xxxxxxx>, jj@xxxxx
says...
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:25:10 +0100, Andi <reply.to@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >Hello
> >
> >I want to add a Seagate 200GB SATA drive to my system. I have quite an
> >old motherboard and it only has an IDE controller which is full at the
> >moment, so I am going to get a PCI SATA card. It doesn't need to be
> >great - I will probably get a new motherboard in a few months.
> >
> >I was wondering what you guys think of the following one:
> >
> >http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=10974855290
> >&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=60614
> >
> >It looks a bit tooooo cheap but *some* of the reviews say it works fine.
> >The next one up from this one is nearly £30 - I didn't really want to
> >spend that much!
>
> I bought this one http://tinyurl.com/a8gf5 along with a 200GB Seagate
> drive.
If I had the choice I would go for that one because it appears to have 2
internal channels rather than 1 internal and 1 external on the one I
found, but it seems to be stuck on 'Stock Overdue'.
Do you know if you can that card in a RAID configuration?
Also, how do you find the noise of the Seagate? Another poster on this
thread said that they are a lot noisier than other manufacturers.
> >What sort of cables will I need to go with this and the Seagate HDD? 1
> >of the reviews said it didn't come with a power connector. Should it? I
> >wouldn't have thought a PCI card would?
>
> Mine came with one data lead (from the card to the HD) but no power
> lead, so you'll need one of these http://tinyurl.com/8cgb7.
Yep it looks like I will need one of those - shame its 'Stock Overdue'
too. I didn't know the SATA HDD's had a different power connector.
> >BTW I won't be using the HDD as the boot drive. It's just to add to my
> >current system.
>
> I did the same, I had an 80 GIG HD on IDE, and then added the 200 GIG
> SATA one. The only slight trouble I had was although after installing
> the drivers for it in XP, and it being recognised in Device Manager,
> the drive didn't show up. The drive letters moved up one to make room
> for it, but I couldn't get XP to show. I installed Partition magic and
> it allocated it and formatted it in a couple of mins. I'm sure it's
> possible somehow in XP, I thought afterwards maybe if I tried to do a
> XP repair from the disc, I don't know.
I've got Partition Magic so hopefully I can just do the same as you. But
I've heard to do it via Windows you need to go to Control Panel >
Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. You can
then format it, rename it, change drive letters etc.
Thanks
Andi
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