RAID 0 and ATA/IDE Cables

[Issachar]

If I buy a boxed IBM HD, it comes with a 80 conductor cable. I am buying two 80G Ultra ATA100 drives that I want to configure as RAID 0 (striping)
If I configure this way, do I need a different cable than the one[s] that come with the drive?
I am asking because if I order the drive alone (OEM?), the 80 conductor is an additional $10. (In which case I would only need to buy one cable and put both drives on it?) But if I need a different cable altogether for the RAID 0 setup, I don't want to waste the 10-20 dollars I won't need.

I am using a ABIT TH711-R mobo with built in RAID (-R)

Thanks for helping if you can.

Issachar

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[mjc]

Yes, you would use the 80 wire cable for the RAID setup....

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[iisbob]

Why 0?

It has NO fault tolernace; one drive dies you lose both and all your data.

You get a little boost in speed with massive data transfers/accesses
but you trade off for vulnerability. Instead i would recommend RAID 1, mirroring will only give you { visible } 80GB's of storage, but in reality ever time you add data to your primary drive, it writes to your secondary drive-instant backup! And you won't really see any major performance hit in using your system.



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