Adding a SATA drive
 

Any reason why I can't add a SATA drive to an Intel D865GBF motherboard ? The board should support 1 SATA drive if I enable it in BIOS.

Looking at the Maxtor offering as I have used those drives for years with no problems.

I have just got into TV cards and some Internet radio. Video editing is proving to be a bit of a problem and despite having a Maxtor 7200rpm 120Mb 8Mb cache drive where all of the media is stored, it is proving to be slow.

I already use both IDE interfaces to the full - hard drive on each as Master drives and a CD-RW drive on each channel as Secondary drives.

Current system is ;

Motherboard as above
1Gb memory
2.4GHz Pentium 4 CPU
OS : Win2000K Pro

Good to see that more manufacturers are starting to make 8Mb cache as default now - I have found that it makes a big difference. Not sure about the increased 7200rpm -> 10,000rpm. I've tried to source a SATA 10,000rpm drive with 8Mb cache and had some rather strange looks !

As an aside any ideas why my FSB speed is showing as 133MHz on this Motherboard when it should be 512 I think ?

As always, advice much appreciated.

LL34

Lost_luggage34,

I run a pair of WD Raptor 10,000RPM 8Mb Cache SATA Drives and their performance on RAID 0 is impressive:

http://www.naples-air-center.com/DAoC/wd_raptor.jpg

Maybe those looks you got were envy. :cool:

As for hooking up SATA Drives, you should have two SATA interfaces.

The speed of your RAM is DDR266 which is 133Mhz accessed twice per clock cycle.

Take Care,

Richard

P.S. I switched from Maxtor to Western Digital when the JB line of drives came out. I have not thought about switching back since. ;)

Thanks Richard - as always.

Pretty damm impressive.

My Motherboard only provides one SATA interface. No issue in using that in addition to the two IDE interfaces ?

Thanks

LL34

Lost_luggage34,

Check again.

http://images10.newegg.com/productim...121-192-05.JPG

http://images10.newegg.com/productim...121-192-02.JPG

Specifications:
Supported CPU: Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4(HT)/Celeron Processors
Chipset: Intel 865G + ICH5
FSB: 800/533/400MHz
RAM: 4x DIMM for DDR400/333/266 Max 4GB
IDE: 2x ATA 100 up to 4 Devices
Slots: 1x AGP 8X/4X(0.8/1.5V), 6x PCI 2.2
Ports: 2xPS2,1xCOM,1xLPT,1xVGA,8xUSB2.0(Rear 4),Audio Ports
Onboard Audio: Analog Devices AD1985 Codec
Onboard Video: Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 controller
Onboard SATA: 2x Serial ATA
Form Factor: ATX


Take Care,

Richard

Thanks for that Richard. I obviously misread the Motherboard manual.

Will have to rethink my options now !

Don't think I want to go down the RAID avenue, but an option I guess.

Do you see much difference with the 10,000rpm drives vs. 7200rpm ?

LL34

You don't have to install 2 drives, you can install 1, it will effectively act as a normal drive without being an array.

Lost_luggage34,

You have two SATA Ports, but that mobo does not have RAID on it I am sorry to say. :(

Just one drive on a SATA Port will do just fine for you. :ok:

Take Care,

Richard