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February 8th, 2003 10:00
Controller Card Question
Hello,
Need some help in understanding a controller card and what it does. I am under the impression that a controller card is needed to control various drives, is that correct?
If so does say the Hard Drive, Floppy Drive, CD-RW Drive, CD DVD Drive all connect to this controller card or what.
Does anything connect to the controller card?
Thanks...........
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NVRambo
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February 8th, 2003 12:00
Yep. Typically, many people connect their hard disks to controller cards to boost hard disk speeds beyond that of their onboard IDE controllers. (i.e.- using an ATA66/100 card on a mb with UDMA33 controllers).
Go here and look at the TX2....
www.promise.com
BrickYard
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February 8th, 2003 22:00
OK, Thanks for the reply. Along with the HD connecting to the controller card would you also connect like the CD-RW, CD DVD drives also? Or just the Hard Disk? Thank You...........
dave51_2fe887
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February 8th, 2003 23:00
Just connect your Harddrive to the controller card and leave your other devices on the motherboard controller. You didn't give your computer model, but you may want to buy a harddrive as fast as the controller card you install. This will speed things up abit.
BrickYard
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February 9th, 2003 10:00
dave5,
Thanks for the reply. Just doing research on various hardware. Going to attempt building up a tower and want to make sure I understand certain things before I through the switch. Am considering going SATA along with a few other new developments. Seems like so much is happening this year. I see Promise has a 2 port and 4 port SATA controller card.............
dave51_2fe887
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February 9th, 2003 13:00
If you have serial devices to use with this card go for it, but the ATA100 , ATA133 TX2 cards are a good choose. You mentioned you are building a new box, you can get a motherboard with ultra ata or Raid array controller onboard. Ah! another chooose. Keep researching and weigh what your going to use the box for and how much you want to spend.
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February 9th, 2003 18:00
Message Edited by dogin on 02-10-2003 06:22 AM
BrickYard
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February 9th, 2003 22:00
Thank you for all the views. I intend to use the new Nvidia Gforce FX when I see a company like Gainward comes out with it, if it hasn't already, have to check. SATA I think is in stage I or II of III I think. Thinking now about DDR SDRAM vs RDRAM and Mid tower ATX case vs full tower case. Everything else is pretty much in place. Then I go shopping.
Thanks again............Mark