DFI lanparty and SATA help =[

jepherz · Feb 5, 2005, 07:29 PM

HEY! i need help =/

i just bought a DFI lanparty for my AMD 64 3200+ newcastle and dont know much about SATA, ive built 2 computers before, but dont know anything about SATA. so...my questions....

do i need a specific PSU for SATA? what is RAID? what can i plug in the SATA cables into? i know i need to get a new harddrive for SATA, but can anything else use SATA other than a HD? whats this cable: http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage....136-147-04.jpg
its the one on the bottom middle with the yellow black and red wires....its kinda llike a SATA cable, but wider.....

**dj_stick** · Feb 6, 2005, 09:28 AM

that's a sata power adaptor

you don't need a special PSU if you use that

Logla · Feb 6, 2005, 09:42 AM

sata will eventually replace the normal ata interface (normal HDD cables) Mainly HDDs use sata but there are a few optical drives sneaking into the market which utilise the sata interface.
You dont kneed a new psu as there are adapter cables about - like the one in your pic.
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and is where you create a disk array with more than one hdd although its reccomended that you use identical drives for each array.
With SATA RAID on your mobo you could setup a RAID0 array for extra performance but if one drive failes you lose all your data on that array.
RAID1 is mirroring and while not offering extra performance it does offer data security because 2 drives have exactly the same data written to them so if one drive fails, you keep a mirror image of that data and can keep on working.

Feb 5, 2005, 07:29 PM	#1
jepherz HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 119 Rep Power: 0	DFI lanparty and SATA help =[ HEY! i need help =/ i just bought a DFI lanparty for my AMD 64 3200+ newcastle and dont know much about SATA, ive built 2 computers before, but dont know anything about SATA. so...my questions.... do i need a specific PSU for SATA? what is RAID? what can i plug in the SATA cables into? i know i need to get a new harddrive for SATA, but can anything else use SATA other than a HD? whats this cable: http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage....136-147-04.jpg its the one on the bottom middle with the yellow black and red wires....its kinda llike a SATA cable, but wider.....

Feb 6, 2005, 09:42 AM	#3
Logla HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,311 Rep Power: 0	sata will eventually replace the normal ata interface (normal HDD cables) Mainly HDDs use sata but there are a few optical drives sneaking into the market which utilise the sata interface. You dont kneed a new psu as there are adapter cables about - like the one in your pic. RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and is where you create a disk array with more than one hdd although its reccomended that you use identical drives for each array. With SATA RAID on your mobo you could setup a RAID0 array for extra performance but if one drive failes you lose all your data on that array. RAID1 is mirroring and while not offering extra performance it does offer data security because 2 drives have exactly the same data written to them so if one drive fails, you keep a mirror image of that data and can keep on working.