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So will I be able to assign RAID to individual ports? &nbsp;I've had a look in the user manual and it doesn't mention anything about this. &nbsp;The board is on its way in the post so I can't flick through the menus just yet. &nbsp;<br />
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I downloaded a copy of the maual from the abit web site.
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So will I be able to assign RAID to individual ports?  I've had a look in the user manual and it doesn't mention anything about this.  The board is on its way in the post so I can't flick through the menus just yet.  

I downloaded a copy of the maual from the abit web site.

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I want to set up RAID 10. &nbsp;I have two Western Digital 10K rpm drives (74Gb) and two Western Digital 7200rpm drives (80Gb). &nbsp;I am going to set up the two 10K drives as the stripped set and the two 7200 drives as the mirrored set.<br />
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My question is, will the 7200 drives have a detrimental affect on the 10K drives in terms of system speed?<br />
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Also, the motherboard (Abit IP35) has 6 SATA interfaces. &nbsp;4 of these will obviously be taken up by the RAID 10 configuration, but can I attach optical drives to the other 2 interfaces?
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I want to set up RAID 10.  I have two Western Digital 10K rpm drives (74Gb) and two Western Digital 7200rpm drives (80Gb).  I am going to set up the two 10K drives as the stripped set and the two 7200 drives as the mirrored set.

My question is, will the 7200 drives have a detrimental affect on the 10K drives in terms of system speed?

Also, the motherboard (Abit IP35) has 6 SATA interfaces.  4 of these will obviously be taken up by the RAID 10 configuration, but can I attach optical drives to the other 2 interfaces?

Do all drives need to be identical in RAID 10?

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