Went my refund check from Uncle Sam hits I'm looking to picking up two 60 GB hard drives and raiding them.
My system looks like this:
Duron 600 -> 900
ABit KT7-Raid (no A revision for me =( )
512 MB RAM
1 Quantum 6GB HD (fireball? it's from mid '98 and 5.25" as well)
1 IBM 20GB HD
1 Maxstor 30GB HD
I'll be picking up the pieces of a friend's old HP desktop that he's junking as he builds his new machine. So I'll be tossing the 6GB in there and making that into a Linux box. I'm also going to moving the 20 GB into my gf's computer so that she has more then the puny 8GB (another HD from '98, but this one from a old Dell machine). Finally I'll leave the 30GB in there and have the two 60 gigs in a Raid 0 formation.
My questions are this. 1) I'm planning on having Win2k or WinXP on the RAID system. I'm not going to be touching it every day and my aim is to make into a super storage place where I can store all my Data, as well as move alot the combined colections of various MP3's from 4 or 5 different people into one location (removing reduntant enteries of course). What OS would be best suited for this task?
2) while I realize that 120 GB of additional HD space sounds a bit much, it was only a year ago when I picked up my 30 GB and now that is filling up. (Of course I am a packrat and don't like deleting anything which is a major contributor to many of my problems.) What steps would I need to take to minimize the risk of data loss in a Raid 0 setup?
3) To achieve best performance how should I hook up the drives to the IDE channels from the HPT on the ABit KT-7?
Thank you,
-Ny
My system looks like this:
Duron 600 -> 900
ABit KT7-Raid (no A revision for me =( )
512 MB RAM
1 Quantum 6GB HD (fireball? it's from mid '98 and 5.25" as well)
1 IBM 20GB HD
1 Maxstor 30GB HD
I'll be picking up the pieces of a friend's old HP desktop that he's junking as he builds his new machine. So I'll be tossing the 6GB in there and making that into a Linux box. I'm also going to moving the 20 GB into my gf's computer so that she has more then the puny 8GB (another HD from '98, but this one from a old Dell machine). Finally I'll leave the 30GB in there and have the two 60 gigs in a Raid 0 formation.
My questions are this. 1) I'm planning on having Win2k or WinXP on the RAID system. I'm not going to be touching it every day and my aim is to make into a super storage place where I can store all my Data, as well as move alot the combined colections of various MP3's from 4 or 5 different people into one location (removing reduntant enteries of course). What OS would be best suited for this task?
2) while I realize that 120 GB of additional HD space sounds a bit much, it was only a year ago when I picked up my 30 GB and now that is filling up. (Of course I am a packrat and don't like deleting anything which is a major contributor to many of my problems.) What steps would I need to take to minimize the risk of data loss in a Raid 0 setup?
3) To achieve best performance how should I hook up the drives to the IDE channels from the HPT on the ABit KT-7?
Thank you,
-Ny
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