[G4] EIDE and Ultra ATA RAID

[Johns Maillist]

On Apr 24, 2005, at 8:55 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:

> 	I have been using a 120 GB Western Digital EIDE drive in my G4 for 
> about a year.  I also have 2 40 GB Ultra ATA drives installed.  I 
> recently picked up a 120 GB Ultra ATA Seagate drive that I put in 
> place of one of the 40 GB drives.
>
> 	I am planning on setting up a Striped RAID using the 2 120 GB drives 
> and installing Tiger on it.  Is this possible even with the 2 
> different interfaces?  If it is possible, would it be worth spending 
> another $80 or $90 to get another Ultra ATA drive to use in place of 
> the EIDE drive?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
The best idea is to buy another Serial ATA drive, add it to the system, 
STRIPE the two SATA drives!
John


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