I want to start using my 2 remaining sata connectors on my P5WDH, they are the JMicron controlled SATA_RAID1 black connector, and the ESATA (rear i/o port). The manual seems to refer to those 2 connectors for implementation in RAID configurations. I currently have Raid-10 using SATA1, SATA3, SATA4, EZ_RAID1 with 4 working drives.
Questions
Can I attach a SATA-II HDD to either or both of those 2 connectors and operate them as NON-Raid drives?
I am planning on adding Mobile Storage racks in the 2 remaining 5.25" front panel bays in my P180b case. One of those Mobile Storage HDD will be a portable 2.5" laptop HDD, which can be purchased in 3 configurations allowing me to use either my available IDE connector, an available USB connector, or one of the 2 sata (JMicron) connectors, port types I have free and available. If I can't use the JMicron, I'll fall back to IDE or USB connectors using an IDE laptop HDD.
The other Mobile Storage rack will be SATA-II standard size 3.5" HDD, which I plan on connecting to the SATA_RAID1 black connector as I mentioned above, but I need to know I can run that connector NON-RAID.
As I am already using the EZ_RAID1 connector in my RAID10 configuration, is the other EZ_RAID2 (currently free and unused) available for a NON RAID SATA HDD???? I seem to recall someone (Wizard?) saying that with Raid10 using one (EZ_RAID1) of the two EZ_RAID connectors, that #2 is forever lost?
Thanks,
Questions
Can I attach a SATA-II HDD to either or both of those 2 connectors and operate them as NON-Raid drives?
I am planning on adding Mobile Storage racks in the 2 remaining 5.25" front panel bays in my P180b case. One of those Mobile Storage HDD will be a portable 2.5" laptop HDD, which can be purchased in 3 configurations allowing me to use either my available IDE connector, an available USB connector, or one of the 2 sata (JMicron) connectors, port types I have free and available. If I can't use the JMicron, I'll fall back to IDE or USB connectors using an IDE laptop HDD.
The other Mobile Storage rack will be SATA-II standard size 3.5" HDD, which I plan on connecting to the SATA_RAID1 black connector as I mentioned above, but I need to know I can run that connector NON-RAID.
As I am already using the EZ_RAID1 connector in my RAID10 configuration, is the other EZ_RAID2 (currently free and unused) available for a NON RAID SATA HDD???? I seem to recall someone (Wizard?) saying that with Raid10 using one (EZ_RAID1) of the two EZ_RAID connectors, that #2 is forever lost?
Thanks,
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