I ordered my XPS Gen 2 with a single SATA 120GB drive and was able setup mine for RAID 1, after purchasing another SATA drive and cable. The XPS Gen 2 has the Intel chip build in thats supports RAID 0 and 1 right on the mother board. If you ordered your from DELL with RAID 1 installed not sure if they using the existing controller or they install an PCI controller for the RAID. There has been some discussion about that the 8300 ordered with RAID had a promise SATA controller for that function.
Another PCI controller may work with work just do not konw. Another issue your going to have is you only have room technically for three 3.5 drives. You could mount a 4th one in your third 5.25 drive bay.
Good luck with your XPS, been happy with mine so far. Let me know how Dell setup the RAID, curious if they used the existing mother board controller or used a controller card.
Spoke with Tech Support (in India, I assume because of the accent) today & posed the question. He, after checking for about 3 minutes, said that adding a PCI RAID controller card is possible and should work in my system without any problems. Will have to wait & see.
Will keep anone interested informed of the outcome.
TomXPS
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January 24th, 2004 22:00
Not sure what to tell you:
I ordered my XPS Gen 2 with a single SATA 120GB drive and was able setup mine for RAID 1, after purchasing another SATA drive and cable. The XPS Gen 2 has the Intel chip build in thats supports RAID 0 and 1 right on the mother board. If you ordered your from DELL with RAID 1 installed not sure if they using the existing controller or they install an PCI controller for the RAID. There has been some discussion about that the 8300 ordered with RAID had a promise SATA controller for that function.
Another PCI controller may work with work just do not konw. Another issue your going to have is you only have room technically for three 3.5 drives. You could mount a 4th one in your third 5.25 drive bay.
Good luck with your XPS, been happy with mine so far. Let me know how Dell setup the RAID, curious if they used the existing mother board controller or used a controller card.
Garfield Rules
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January 25th, 2004 00:00
F.Y.I.
Spoke with Tech Support (in India, I assume because of the accent) today & posed the question. He, after checking for about 3 minutes, said that adding a PCI RAID controller card is possible and should work in my system without any problems. Will have to wait & see.
Will keep anone interested informed of the outcome.