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What is largest drive that ASUS P2B BX board supports?

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WackyDan

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I'm retiring a BX based machine running a ASUS P2B board and turning it into a server/linux/backup type box... Not totally sure yet.

But... I want to boost the storage by adding one, or two 100+GB drives. I'm thinking that the P2B won't support drives of that size or larger. Or can it????

If not, I'm assuming I coul dget a raid adapter and that would enable large drive support???

Anybody have experience with this on a P2B/bx board???

And yes, I realise I can build a new low end box, with better performance. But that's not the nature of my question... Just trying to build a solution for myself using existing hardware and save a few bucks.

Thanks in advance.
 
I've used 120GB HDDs in my P2B. You'll need the latest BIOS though, I believe I had to use the latest beta BIOS. If anything larger doesn't work, just buy a cheap PCI IDE controller card.
 
That's what i thought.....

I was aiming for the 160GB drives though....But 120's should work just fine for a year until I might outgrow them.

Either way I might try to raid them, though I might just setup a software raid as the machine will be mainly for backup and spare - I don't really care about the performance overall.

Thanks.
 
The P2B family of boards will support hard drive sizes up to 128GB on BIOS versions 1013 or above.
 
If you want 160GB...a dual-channel ATA controller card can be had for $30 any day of the week.
I don't know how well Promise and HighPoint do as far as Linux drivers, though.

Making a little server out of it sounds like a good application to me--Asus P2Bs just keep going, and going, and going...

If you do software RAID 1, you'll be fine for performance. Software RAID 5 will be pretty slow...HDs and network limited on read, but very slow writes. Could be worth it for backup (more space per HD in RAID), but if you're regularly going to be writing gigs of data to it at a time, something to think about (dual PII 400, Win2k server, 3x80GB RAID 5...write about 5MB/s, reads over 8MB/s [about the max the LAN does]).
 
Originally posted by: Cerb
If you want 160GB...a dual-channel ATA controller card can be had for $30 any day of the week.
I don't know how well Promise and HighPoint do as far as Linux drivers, though.

Making a little server out of it sounds like a good application to me--Asus P2Bs just keep going, and going, and going...

If you do software RAID 1, you'll be fine for performance. Software RAID 5 will be pretty slow...HDs and network limited on read, but very slow writes. Could be worth it for backup (more space per HD in RAID), but if you're regularly going to be writing gigs of data to it at a time, something to think about (dual PII 400, Win2k server, 3x80GB RAID 5...write about 5MB/s, reads over 8MB/s [about the max the LAN does]).
Click to expand...

Problem I've discovered though is that I might run Win2k and that only supports a soft raid of 0.

Looks like I'll red hat or SUSE it for soft raid 1. I'd like to keep a Win2K server going though... I run VM Ware on one of my stronger systems and that is where I run most of my Linux Distros.

FYI.... I agree on the P2B boards... this has been by far the best board I've ever owned. My current server is an old AMD 550 on a SOYO board and that one just seems to have more issues than are worth dealing with --hence the move to replace it with the P2B set up. I'll be buying another Shuttle XPC to replace the P2B board system which is running a PIII550 right now.... But we'll see.

Thanks.
 
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