Recent content by jcony

Is this being plugged into a router? switch? verify your physical connection. make sure the link lights on the back of your NIC are in good status. Your router would act as a DHCP server (basicly assigning your IP address). Make sure that your IP and DNS server is optained automaticly in your...

sorry it took so long to get a scan up. no digi cam when i first posted. I believe it is this price to compete with the local Fry's Electronics store in the area that just opened. apparently by the feedback it is local to this area. link: http://home.comcast.net/~jcony/pc/wd250long.jpg

A. I just bought a SX6000 raid card and have a 6x250GB RAID 5 array. This is my first RAID 5 array and I was wondering how often most people do this? B. I also noticed that under my array settings, there is an option under "Disk Parameters" to "Enable S.M.A.R.T Check". This will: "Enable...

EDIT: location: Addison, Il. Best Buy time of purchase: 7/25/04 @ 16:38 CST sku: 5524364 retail box, unopened This was not advertised in my local ad. According to my friend who works there, the price was $109.99. Went in today and picked up 3 drives at that price out the door, no rebate! Not...

well, my big question is - what am i NOT getting with the 4 channel one? will there be any performance gain/loss? will my data be better protected? at this first glympse, i dont see a reason to go with the 6 channel over the 4. this is a one shot deal so i want to make sure it goes down right...

Nice find and thanks to beserker for the mirror

Thanks for the advice. $250 is a bit high. I suppose that if i have gone this far, if its the only option, ill have to go with it. However, is there any reason I shouldn't go with a 4 channel RAID5 adapter (4CHx2Drive=8DriveMAX)? Will this not work or is it not recommended? Why? for example...

I have 6 250GB Drives that I want to RAID-5 for redundancy. Hardware RAIDing them is out of the question - too much $$$, which leads to software RAID. Mircosoft states that under the Win2k workstation or any flavors of XP - software RAID-5 is not supported, only the server versions can do it...