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edjam

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Hi guys, I have just bought a Promise Ultra100 TX2 to be used with a 40GB IBM 60GXP. The drive will be on its own on the RAID array at the moment. Is this an ok combination?
 
Yea, I guess that should be said. You wont get RAID 0 until you add 2 or more drives...you'll just use the RAID connector as an IDE connector.
 
Something else to think about also is that if one drive goes bad you loose what is on both. A lot of people with IBM drives have been complaining of drive failures. I see you have the 60GXP series so you should be alright though. Just back up important information.
 
Well, since I am a newbie to this sort of thing. Am I correct in saying that as long as I have one drive that it will work? I just want it as an addon back up drive, not as a super fast drive.

What do you mean that if one dirve goes bad I lose all of the data, even the data saved on the drives or the data being transmitted through that IDE channel?
 
to have a raid setup u need 2 drives.

the most common raid setups are raid 0 and raid 1..

Raid 0 is all about speed.

Raid 1 is mirroring.

which one are u wanting to do? Seems like u want mirroring. since u said u want a add-on back-up drive that means u want to MIRROR right? well if u want to mirror u have to buy another hard rdive (if u want 40gb space have to get another 40gb hard drive). if u want to mirror u will have ot go out and buy another 40gb hard rdive. should be same speed. and best to be the same model (60gxp in your case)
 
Oh bloody hell, trust me to not do my research properly. I though you could just add a drive as and when you liked.
 
well if u dont want to run raid u can use that raid card. i believe if u have a raid card and just want mirroring but cant afford a new hard drive atm u can still use your computer and when you can afford a hard rdive just put one in and it would automatically mirror everything for ya (not to sure on this but i thought i read it some where)
 
yes, you can use the drive

The raid card is a Promise Fasttrack

The regular ATA100 is the Ultra 100, I have one of those in my system as well but not the TX2 version (they use the same chip either way).
 
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