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Old 07-01-2009, 11:20 PM   #3 (permalink)
Jamin43
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Originally Posted by johnb35 View Post
The dimension 4500 isn't raid compatible by motherboard alone. You would have to get a PCI IDE or SATA raid controller card and set it up that way. You need a minimum of 2 drives to setup any raid array.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of Raid controllers.

The MOBO is 5 years old and doesn't have any SATA technology on it. I'm not familiar with RAID controllers. The price range is pretty wide - I see $250.00 down to $19.95.

Would one of these do the trick?

http://microcenter.com/single_produc...uct_id=0246248
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