RAID 1 with 4 SATA II drives
I have a M/B with an integrated nVidia SATA II RAID controller. The M/B died the other day leaving me in a pickle. In an act of desparation, I took the four SATA II drives out of the server and put them into another server with a similar nVidia SATA II RAID controller. To my [...]

Answer Question   |  June 8, 2009  12:26 PM
nVidia SATA II RAID controller, RAID, RAID 1, SATA 2

Is SATA II disks adequate for running VMs
I built a Hyper-V server, which has a 6 channel SATA II controller. I will use one disk to run he host OS (Windows 2008 Server Enterprise – Core) and will use the remaining 5 SATA II disks to run VMs on. In addition the system has the capacity to hold 32GB RAM, and has [...]

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2009  10:17 AM
Hyper-V, Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008, SAS disks, SATA 2, SATA 2 disks, SATA hard drives, Serial Attached SCSI, Virtual Machines, Windows Server 2008

Is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA:ST3300831AS disc drive a SATA or SATA-2 drive?
Is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA:ST3300831AS disc drive a SATA or SATA-2 drive?

Answer Question   |  November 14, 2008  7:40 PM
Hard drives, SATA, SATA 2, Seagate Barracuda

SATA2
Hi, Question 1 - I want to move from an IDE hard drive to SATA. I’m using a Gigabyte GA 7N400 Pro 2 motherboard and although it says its SATA compatiable, would this mean I can use SATA 2 drives on there too? I’m not sure of the differences. Question 2 – When installing Vista [...]

Answer Question   |  May 29, 2008  5:14 PM
Hard drives, SATA, SATA 2, SATA hard disk, Serial ATA

RAID Problems
Hi, I have just built a system using a Gigabyte GA-73VM-S2 Motherboard using nVidia SATA Raid. I attached 2 500Gb Samsung SATA2 drives, downloaded the SATA Raid drivers for Vista from nVidia and created a Mirrored Raid array with them, then installed Windows Vista Business. The install appeared to go OK, I was downloading Windows [...]

Answer Question   |  August 28, 2008  4:49 PM
RAID, SATA, SATA 2, Vista