Little help Please!

[mantis69666]

I have a few questions that I would like answered:

I just purchased a Soyo KT-400 mobo and am planning on setting up a RAID 0 with two Seagate 60GB HD; Can I partition these drives or is there a certain way partitions need set-up when using RAID-0?

What is the difference between an Athlon XP 2800+ and an Athlon XP 2800+ with Barton core?

Does anyone have a good suggestion on placing an air filter in the front of an Antec SX1240 case? (Between the plastic grill and chassis)

Thank you all for your help.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Once the RAID array is configured, you can partition them in any way you want. The actual partition size may be several MB different from what you specifically ask for due to alignment issues, but that's all. The OS only sees one drive available, it doesn't care that it spans across two physical drives.

XP Thoroughbred core has a 256k L2 cache. Barton has a 512k cache.

Don't know what kind of suggestions you want about the filter. Either you have it in there or you don't. I've never noticed any buildup at all on my filter even though dust builds up everywhere else, but I don't run intake fans there.

 

[Rav3n]

You can put a piece of filter paper between the grill and the chassis;
You can stick a filter between your fan and the chassis;
You can glue a piece of filter paper on top of your plastic grill (fugly though);
You can put filters on the vents in your house, and decrease the ambient dust buildup

 

[mantis69666]

Lord Evermore, what exactly do you mean by having the RAID array configured? Does this mean to set it up, install windows, then use DiscWizard to partition it after installation?

By having a 512K L2 cache, in what way does this make it a better chip? Is it faster at processing or is it just faster at transferring information or is it just able to contain more information within it?

 

[mantis69666]

Double post, sorry. My work computer isn't all that great.

 

[jackschmittusa]

The effect of the larger cache is that data is fed to the cpu much faster in many cases. Anything the cpu needs, it will go to the cache first, them system ram (which is slower), then to the hard drive (which is very slow in comparison). So if the cache contains the data the cpu needs, through-put is much faster. The Barton also sits on a 333mz bus which adds more speed.

 

[mantis69666]

<BUMP> for night crowd.

Just wondering if I set-up the RAID array and install my OS, how I'm supposed to partition it then.