[Shacs] sata raid for winxp

[Bronius Motekaitis]

Hmm.. I saw something similar from iomega, but apparently that one can get
accessed as a standalone network device (via ftp and even http?).

So but I'm looking for data reliability: stuffing a couple 500s into
external storage like this doesn't provide any redundancy.. if I am going to
gamble with the disks, I might as well stick with just one and add it as a
second internal drive and be done with it.

I *think *what I want is a raid config... or maybe 2ndary hd with some
online backup service?

-bronius


On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:49 PM, James Wyman <james.d.wyman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Raid 1 always takes a performance hit compared to no raid or raid 0. If
> you are planning on having a backup drive I would recommend really using one
> of the new server devices that allow you to store stuff in raid 0 or raid 1.
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822102002 or
> something like this is what I would recommend over replacing hard drives
> inside your computer. This would be accessible by multiple computers and
> could be easily kept for any new computers you may purchase in the future.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Bronius Motekaitis <
> bronius.motekaitis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I need a little tech talk..  It's been a while since I opened a pc, and
> > lo and behold, my wife's Dell has a sata drive-- talk about a fortuitous
> > step in the right direction some years ago...
> >
> > So.  I'd like to put a pair of 500GB western digital drives in mirrored
> > raid-1 config on this Dell Dimension 4700 running winxp.  It's got two sata
> > ports hanging off the motherboard, but I can't tell whether the
> > motherboard/bios will support raid natively.
> >
> > Supposing it cannot, I am checking out this PNY PCI card.  And came
> > across the same in PCI-express...  ok, so I don't know whether I have a free
> > PCIe slot:
> > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim4700/sm/techov.htm
> > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim4700/sm/specs.htm
> > Neither the video (PCI-E x16) nor the little rinky-dink PCI-E x1 have
> > anything in them, but which am I looking to fill with the PNY sata raid
> > card?
> >
> > And (perhaps out of order), am I going to expect a huge hd r/w
> > performance hit by running thru a pci-e vs my onboard sata?
> >
> > Side note, because you made it this far: Who ever thought the day would
> > come that consumers could buy TERABYTE drives for their home PCs!  I know
> > Burris didn't..  yes, Dr. B, that's a *Lot *of reel-to-reel cassettes.
> >
> > please help. . Got a baby due in 1-2weeks and need to free up some
> > digital storage space quickly.. :O
> > -bronius
> >
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