New rig up and running

[OdiN]

This is one of the smoothest upgrades I've ever had.

Here's what I'm packin now:

Q6600 @ 3GHz (Been running Prime95 for an hour now)
Asus P5K Deluxe
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme
4GB Corsair DDR2
EVGA 8600GTS (waiting for Dell to send my 8800GT...)
150GB Raptor
2 x 500GB WD's - RAID 1

Just used my existing P180 case w/ 500W True Power and cd/dvd drives.

Running on Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and so far liking it.

Using onboard sound until I get ahold of a good dedicated PCI card with x64 drivers.

 

[seemingly random]

Looks good.

Have you ever lost a drive in raid 1? Does it recover well? I know what they're advertised to do - just haven't heard from anyone who's actually had to test it.

Something I've always wondered about upgrades is where all of the upgraded parts go - closet, trash, resold, combined with other parts to build another pc, ...

 

[OdiN]

I've lost drives in RAID 1 and RAID 5 in servers, but never in my own rig. The servers have always done as promised. Plop another drive in and it just rebuilds.

I'm selling my old parts to defer the cost of the system. Because I still need to get another 2 x 500GB's to put as an external RAID 1 array in an eSATA box. I have a 300GB one setup, but it's full. It has all my backup stuff on it. Most of it is all my photos (I'm a photographer) and they take up tons of space (8MB per image). So going to move that to the 500GB RAID and keep the other 300GB RAID as main backup for my stuff.

And I need a sound card.

Thought about keeping the parts and building a media rig, but I really wouldn't use it.

I would like to try a WHS at some point though.

 

[seemingly random]

So there'll be room for ~60,000 images on a 500gb drive - with no other resolutions or mods. Seems like you should be looking at the 1tb models.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: seemingly random
So there'll be room for ~60,000 images on a 500gb drive - with no other resolutions or mods. Seems like you should be looking at the 1tb models.

I might...I haven't decided yet. I have to make sure they are compatible with the external box I want to get.

Eventually I will start archiving some of them off. But the problem is that DVD's are rather small....I really need double layer, and actually BDR would be best.

 

[seemingly random]

Funny, I wouldn't have questioned 1tb compat.

Whoever thought we'd ever consider a dvd 'small'... even single layer.

I would think you'd want a very reliable, proven medium that has good cross-machine readability.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: seemingly random
Funny, I wouldn't have questioned 1tb compat.

Whoever thought we'd ever consider a dvd 'small'... even single layer.

I would think you'd want a very reliable, proven medium that has good cross-machine readability.

Yeah...some external SATA enclosures specify 500GB max capacity.

The one I have is 1TB max..though maybe it's just because nothing bigger is out there yet.

Cross-machine readability isn't that important. As long as I can read it on mine then I'm fine. But yeah I would want something that could be stored for a good long time. BDR should be okay...but even it is only 25GB, and it's like $13 for a single piece of good media. That would be $260 for 500GB. Lame.

 

[seemingly random]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Yeah...some external SATA enclosures specify 500GB max capacity.

But this would be an artificial nas s/w limitation - not electrical or physical.

Cross-machine readability isn't that important. As long as I can read it on mine then I'm fine.

And if yours grows legs or gets damaged? This isn't just last years taxes - it's important.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: seemingly random

Originally posted by: OdiN
Yeah...some external SATA enclosures specify 500GB max capacity.

But this would be an artificial nas s/w limitation - not electrical or physical.

Cross-machine readability isn't that important. As long as I can read it on mine then I'm fine.

And if yours grows legs or gets damaged? This isn't just last years taxes - it's important.

Uhm...buy a new one? Since I would have to anyway?

 

[seemingly random]

I still occasionally get a dvd created on one pc that is unable to be read on another pc. Don't know of the reliability of bdr.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: seemingly random
I still occasionally get a dvd created on one pc that is unable to be read on another pc. Don't know of the reliability of bdr.

Odd. I've never had a CD or DVD created on mine that I couldn't read on anything I've tried.

 

[seemingly random]

Now you can see where I'm coming from. Having history with the first cd's makes me cautious. In the early 90s, there was a 50% chance of multi-reader compatibility. Granted, I don't encounter the problem near as often now, but I still keep it in mind for critical backups.

How do data centers backup?

 

[OdiN]

Well at work I run backups on HP Ultrium tape cardtriges in an auto loader.

Daily differentials
Weekly's are seent off site
Monthly full backups, sent off site
Yearly full backups stored indefinitely