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12-19-2006, 08:47 PM
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Dumb mobo question
I'm running on an aging Socket 478 computer at the moment, and I'd love to go Core 2 Duo, and I'd love a bigger hard drive than 137GB. I figured I could get a RAID card and a couple SATA drives, but if I'm going to do that, I may as well just build a whole new computer anyway. Maybe during the summer or next winter. We'll see. Anyway, to my dumb question:
I notice some mobos have only one port for IDE devices, and the rest SATA. I know you can't boot from RAID cards, but can you boot from SATA drives if the motherboard has connections for them? I imagine motherboards come with that one IDE port for CD/DVD devices. But I'd love to find out now by asking than later by blowing $xxx on a hard drive I can't boot from. Thanks!
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12-19-2006, 09:50 PM
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Yes, you can boot from SATA dvd drives and hard drives. Most motherboards for Intel are being made with one IDE header since SATA is becoming more and more widespread.
I don't recommend RAID either, quite honestly. Better off with the safety of one large, fast drive, such as the Seagate 7200.10.
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