Topic: BTW Storm, Hows the Raid doing? (Read 3554 times)

Sirgod · « **on:** May 19, 2004, 04:11:00 pm »

anything you discovered Setting It up that could be of use to others here? How about the Mobile drive Dock?

Stephen

Stormbringer · « **Reply #1 on:** May 19, 2004, 04:28:38 pm »

Raid is a weekend job for me. I've go tto save a lot of files and want to upgrade OS. The dock will require either that I free a bay by geting a combo drive or buy a 5 bay case and move my hardware. So I'm thinking I may put it in my old computer since it's primary purpose in life at first is to raid all my old hard drive I have laying around. Later I'll use it for secured storage on my primary computer.

Sirgod · « **Reply #2 on:** May 19, 2004, 04:31:32 pm »

Out of Curiosity, what OS are you using Bro?

stephen

Stormbringer · « **Reply #3 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:00:30 pm »

98 SE with all service packs up until it was no longer supported.

Javora · « **Reply #4 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:12:23 pm »

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98 SE with all service packs up until it was no longer supported.

What type of Raid are you going to set up, 0, 1, or 0+1 ? Be careful with Win98se it can be a little flaky.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #5 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:19:27 pm »

Raid 0 striped. I will probably buy and install XP. I've got 2 western digital 120G X8MB buffered hard drives. Though 98SE served me well, i'm begining to have trouble with certain things because of it. I hate the idea of going XP but Don't think I can hold out forever.

Javora · « **Reply #6 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:49:53 pm »

Wow I'm surprised you are using two 120gb drives, usually people use smaller drives for that kind of Raid set up. Nothing wrong at all with using those drives, I'm just kind of surprised. As for switching OS's have you thought about using Win2000? I switched to Win2000 when I built my system and I love it. Best of all Win2000 supports S-ATA, which is going to make Win98 obsolete.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #7 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:57:10 pm »

Well I'm no where near an expert on RAID. This will be my first time and my choice of Raid flavor was guided by a MAX PC article on it. As to HD size I had 80s but the price difference was not that much now that the 250s and higher spin rate ones are out. The only reason for me to go lower would be if the extra space slowed my system down as a quirk of RAID operation.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #8 on:** May 19, 2004, 06:23:23 pm »

I chose RAID 0 striped because it reads a file from both HD's simultaneously taking part from one and part from the other in parallel and with the bigger buffers and separate IDE channels it is much faster while the double storage allows for redundancy and some protection against crashes causing data loss. That is my understanding anyway. comments?

Stormbringer · « **Reply #10 on:** May 19, 2004, 08:36:05 pm »

Are you saying I need 2 more 120's to make this work? I was hoping to use those other IDE channels for secure data back up and optical media.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #12 on:** May 19, 2004, 09:14:24 pm »

I have A soyo systems KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum MB with built in Raid controller and additional non RAID IDE ports. I think 4 RAID and two non RAID but I have not looked in a while and may be wrong, it could be just two RAID but that would make the the mirror drive system you mentioned need to use secondary channels which is a no no with RAID (for speed) IIRC. I could look but I'm too lazy to open my case right now. I have a couple of PCI slots open and could use additional controllers for non critical drives.

Sirgod · « **Reply #13 on:** May 19, 2004, 04:11:00 pm »

anything you discovered Setting It up that could be of use to others here? How about the Mobile drive Dock?

Stephen

Stormbringer · « **Reply #14 on:** May 19, 2004, 04:28:38 pm »

Raid is a weekend job for me. I've go tto save a lot of files and want to upgrade OS. The dock will require either that I free a bay by geting a combo drive or buy a 5 bay case and move my hardware. So I'm thinking I may put it in my old computer since it's primary purpose in life at first is to raid all my old hard drive I have laying around. Later I'll use it for secured storage on my primary computer.

Sirgod · « **Reply #15 on:** May 19, 2004, 04:31:32 pm »

Out of Curiosity, what OS are you using Bro?

stephen

Stormbringer · « **Reply #16 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:00:30 pm »

98 SE with all service packs up until it was no longer supported.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #18 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:19:27 pm »

Raid 0 striped. I will probably buy and install XP. I've got 2 western digital 120G X8MB buffered hard drives. Though 98SE served me well, i'm begining to have trouble with certain things because of it. I hate the idea of going XP but Don't think I can hold out forever.

Javora · « **Reply #19 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:49:53 pm »

Wow I'm surprised you are using two 120gb drives, usually people use smaller drives for that kind of Raid set up. Nothing wrong at all with using those drives, I'm just kind of surprised. As for switching OS's have you thought about using Win2000? I switched to Win2000 when I built my system and I love it. Best of all Win2000 supports S-ATA, which is going to make Win98 obsolete.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #20 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:57:10 pm »

Well I'm no where near an expert on RAID. This will be my first time and my choice of Raid flavor was guided by a MAX PC article on it. As to HD size I had 80s but the price difference was not that much now that the 250s and higher spin rate ones are out. The only reason for me to go lower would be if the extra space slowed my system down as a quirk of RAID operation.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #21 on:** May 19, 2004, 06:23:23 pm »

I chose RAID 0 striped because it reads a file from both HD's simultaneously taking part from one and part from the other in parallel and with the bigger buffers and separate IDE channels it is much faster while the double storage allows for redundancy and some protection against crashes causing data loss. That is my understanding anyway. comments?

Stormbringer · « **Reply #23 on:** May 19, 2004, 08:36:05 pm »

Are you saying I need 2 more 120's to make this work? I was hoping to use those other IDE channels for secure data back up and optical media.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #25 on:** May 19, 2004, 09:14:24 pm »

I have A soyo systems KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum MB with built in Raid controller and additional non RAID IDE ports. I think 4 RAID and two non RAID but I have not looked in a while and may be wrong, it could be just two RAID but that would make the the mirror drive system you mentioned need to use secondary channels which is a no no with RAID (for speed) IIRC. I could look but I'm too lazy to open my case right now. I have a couple of PCI slots open and could use additional controllers for non critical drives.

Sirgod · « **Reply #26 on:** May 19, 2004, 04:11:00 pm »

anything you discovered Setting It up that could be of use to others here? How about the Mobile drive Dock?

Stephen

Stormbringer · « **Reply #27 on:** May 19, 2004, 04:28:38 pm »

Raid is a weekend job for me. I've go tto save a lot of files and want to upgrade OS. The dock will require either that I free a bay by geting a combo drive or buy a 5 bay case and move my hardware. So I'm thinking I may put it in my old computer since it's primary purpose in life at first is to raid all my old hard drive I have laying around. Later I'll use it for secured storage on my primary computer.

Sirgod · « **Reply #28 on:** May 19, 2004, 04:31:32 pm »

Out of Curiosity, what OS are you using Bro?

stephen

Stormbringer · « **Reply #29 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:00:30 pm »

98 SE with all service packs up until it was no longer supported.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #31 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:19:27 pm »

Raid 0 striped. I will probably buy and install XP. I've got 2 western digital 120G X8MB buffered hard drives. Though 98SE served me well, i'm begining to have trouble with certain things because of it. I hate the idea of going XP but Don't think I can hold out forever.

Javora · « **Reply #32 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:49:53 pm »

Wow I'm surprised you are using two 120gb drives, usually people use smaller drives for that kind of Raid set up. Nothing wrong at all with using those drives, I'm just kind of surprised. As for switching OS's have you thought about using Win2000? I switched to Win2000 when I built my system and I love it. Best of all Win2000 supports S-ATA, which is going to make Win98 obsolete.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #33 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:57:10 pm »

Well I'm no where near an expert on RAID. This will be my first time and my choice of Raid flavor was guided by a MAX PC article on it. As to HD size I had 80s but the price difference was not that much now that the 250s and higher spin rate ones are out. The only reason for me to go lower would be if the extra space slowed my system down as a quirk of RAID operation.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #34 on:** May 19, 2004, 06:23:23 pm »

I chose RAID 0 striped because it reads a file from both HD's simultaneously taking part from one and part from the other in parallel and with the bigger buffers and separate IDE channels it is much faster while the double storage allows for redundancy and some protection against crashes causing data loss. That is my understanding anyway. comments?

Stormbringer · « **Reply #36 on:** May 19, 2004, 08:36:05 pm »

Are you saying I need 2 more 120's to make this work? I was hoping to use those other IDE channels for secure data back up and optical media.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #38 on:** May 19, 2004, 09:14:24 pm »

I have A soyo systems KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum MB with built in Raid controller and additional non RAID IDE ports. I think 4 RAID and two non RAID but I have not looked in a while and may be wrong, it could be just two RAID but that would make the the mirror drive system you mentioned need to use secondary channels which is a no no with RAID (for speed) IIRC. I could look but I'm too lazy to open my case right now. I have a couple of PCI slots open and could use additional controllers for non critical drives.

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