asus p5k deluxe ide raid?

[dubesinhower]

first off, is there such thing as ide raid 0?
if so, am i able to do it with an asus p5k deluxe?

 

[A Cheese Danish]

Yes there is a such thing. However, I'm not sure if that board supports IDE RAID or not.
Best is to use the motherboard manual to try and set up RAID in the BIOS.
And I also read that if you press control+J when the computer starts up, you should be sent
to the JMicron RAID in the BIOS. Not too sure on that.

 

[jevery]

If this is your board, http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=534&l4=0&model=1646&modelmenu=2, you have the ICH9R south bridge that supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10.

 

[Geoff]

If this is your board, http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=534&l4=0&model=1646&modelmenu=2, you have the ICH9R south bridge that supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10.

That's SATA Raid. He only has one IDE port by the way, so trying to RAID two hard drives on the same IDE cable is going to cause quite a performance hit.

 

[dubesinhower]

so you dont think ide raid would be a good idea since i only have one ide port?

 

[Geoff]

Honestly no. RAID isn't usually worth it for the average person anyways, and with the decreased speed of using two IDE drives on the same cable I would say it's really not worth it. You can do it if you want though and report back your speeds.