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stevepayne · 09-17-2007, 03:29 PM

I'm planning a spot of upgrading to my machine - namely a shiny new core 2 processer which will also mean a new motherboard as my current one is a socket 468.

As SATA HD's are now pretty cheap I'm thinking that a couple of Seagate 500GB disks would go quite nicely together as a Raid 1 (mirrored). This brought me to looking for an ATX motherboard which has onboard Raid for its Sata. Does such a thing exist without paying a serious premium?

I'm not looking for an absolute top notch board, but full size ATX with 3 pci slots and still with an IDE connector to save me needing a new DVDR/W drive...

Thanks in advance.

09-17-2007, 03:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
stevepayne Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: UK Posts: 59 OS: Win 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista	Motherboard Suggestions - SATA Raid? I'm planning a spot of upgrading to my machine - namely a shiny new core 2 processer which will also mean a new motherboard as my current one is a socket 468. As SATA HD's are now pretty cheap I'm thinking that a couple of Seagate 500GB disks would go quite nicely together as a Raid 1 (mirrored). This brought me to looking for an ATX motherboard which has onboard Raid for its Sata. Does such a thing exist without paying a serious premium? I'm not looking for an absolute top notch board, but full size ATX with 3 pci slots and still with an IDE connector to save me needing a new DVDR/W drive... Thanks in advance.