Tuesday, August 29
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My new office PC has moved from "parts allocation" to "invoicing". They had to swap the memory as well as the motherboard to make it work, but now they've done a 72-hour burn-in with all 4GB and it's working.
So I'm sitting here trying to get it to move to "shipped" by sheer force of will.
Doesn't seem to be working.
Update: Just needed to concentrate a bit harder. Eet hes sheeped!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
11:13 PM
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Posted by: Wonderduck at Wednesday, August 30 2006 03:18 AM (CJ5+Y)
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Posted by: Michele at Friday, September 01 2006 02:59 PM (y9UuV)
Can you offer advice for someone new to RAID? My home computer has nothing on it but software that I have available on cd. I regularly back up my personal files once every couple of years, since losing them would not be a very big deal.
In my position, would you go with RAID 0? Or one of the safer modes? I'd like 500G of space, but only have the spare cash for 2-300GB drives.
Thanks in advance,
The guy who's not a fan of Anime ;)
Posted by: Kevin at Friday, September 01 2006 08:49 PM (++0ve)
On Windows, software RAID in general sucks. Spanned volumes are okay, though.
And any RAID controller that costs less than $500 is not hardware RAID, no matter what it says on the box. Likewise the controller on anything but a high-end server motherboard.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, September 02 2006 12:10 AM (FRalS)
Posted by: Kevin at Saturday, September 02 2006 08:24 AM (++0ve)
The 3Ware controllers work brilliantly - we use those in the servers at work. But they ain't cheap.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, September 02 2006 08:41 AM (oFrbW)
It turns out that my ASUS P4P-800 motherboard does do RAID, but as you suggested, it does it badly according to online reviews (eats 30% of cpu on a P4 2.8 when hitting the drives and a few say it doesn't really increase the read speed noticeably!). I guess I'll just use them as separate volumes since joining them no longer offers me any value.
Thanks again for the help/opinion.
Posted by: Kevin at Saturday, September 02 2006 10:44 AM (++0ve)
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