[Shacs] sata raid for winxp

[Bronius Motekaitis]

Thanks all for your varied solutions.  Had they been ReplyAll (Frey-- you
wanna set the bit to make default reply go to the list?), you could all
learn from my fumblings, but there ya go.

So far, I've got raid card solutions, external storage with built-in raid,
online backup services like Mozy, and this late entry:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116041
I was strongly cautioned against the $30 PNY and encouraged to check out
this $180 3ware.

However, my latest self-discovery is that I'm really looking not only for
modest storage redundancy but for archival services (either online or
something in-house).

In the meantime, in preparation for likely setting up a pair of 550GBs in
raid-1, I went ahead and ordered one drive to tide me over.  Gotta meet
business requirements first, and with the baby due in ~1week, business
continuity is everything!  :D

-bronius


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:17 PM, kyle <kyle at kylepatrick.com> wrote:

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> *From:* shacs-bounces at shsu.edu [mailto:shacs-bounces at shsu.edu] *On Behalf
> Of *Bronius Motekaitis
> *Sent:* Monday, April 28, 2008 10:08 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Shacs] sata raid for winxp
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> Hmm.. I saw something similar from iomega, but apparently that one can get
> accessed as a standalone network device (via ftp and even http?).
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> 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.
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> I *think *what I want is a raid config... or maybe 2ndary hd with some
> online backup service?
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> -bronius
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>  On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:49 PM, James Wyman <james.d.wyman at gmail.com>
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> 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.
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>   On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Bronius Motekaitis <
> bronius.motekaitis at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  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...
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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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