KnockOnWood Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 Ive recently bought a new motherboard and a processor, ive got everything working just fine but I have a little question. On my motherboard (Epox 8KTA3+) there is this two optional UIDE ports that I can connect my Harddrives to instead of the ordinary IDE ports. What is the advantages if I do this? At the moment I have the drive connected to the IDE port should I change it to the UIDE? Thanks for any advices you can come up with! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litchy Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 These ports should be for RAID or ATA100 drives depending on how you set your bios. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWB Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 I am not familiar with your specific motherboard, but I am familiar with the technologies: ATA-100= Disk I/O protocol with a theoretical maximum of 100mb/sec data transfer rate. 40 or so is the realistic maximum. IIRC. Note that you need a special IDE cable to use this technology. RAID= A method of putting 2 (in your case, potentially far more) identical drives connected to a special controller which can make them work as one. In your case, you could create a RAID 0 array which could increase disk speed to 60-70mb/sec. WWB 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnockOnWood Posted September 9, 2001 Author Share Posted September 9, 2001 Aha? I think I got some of it Ive got that special cable so I guess ill plug it in and take a deep dive into the usermanual, Thanks for you help guys, hope I get this working 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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