HELP: Upgrade to AMD from Intel? Do RAID in the same upgrade?

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I'm thinking about upgrading from my Intel 600E@800 system to an AMD system with one of the new KT133A motherboards. I wanted to know what my chances are that my power supply and memory will work with AMD. I have a Supermicro SC750A case with the Supermicro PS that came with it. As for memory, I have 2 Crucial sticks that will work, but I have a third generic memory stick that I'm not sure about. Would it be worth the possible headache to do this upgrade? I would also like to add a second 45GB hard drive and make it a RAID system. My question for that is, do the drives have to be blank in order to set them up for RAID? I have a lot of stuff on that 45GB hard drive that I don't want to get rid of.

Thanks!
David

 

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[kylebisme]

you can check the powersuply with the amd facts, just read the info of the side of the ps. as for the ram its hard to say without more info on the ram you can check up on that more to at amd, but in the long run do you realy nead half a gig? even if it doen't work it would be cheap to replace it soon. lastly, no you will loose anything on the hard-drive when going to raid.

 

[mschell]

One way to keep your data is to buy two 20G drives, 40MB total RAID, set up the RAID array with your present drive as a slave drive, then use a file copy utility to transfer the contents to the RAID volume. 20G IBM drives can be had for $120.00 or so, the total drive cost is not much more than the single 45G you wish to purchase and you have a spare backup drive - a good thing to have when running a striped RAID array. - M.