Happy Monday
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After arriving at work I discovered that my PC died over the weekend. I have spent the past 4 hours installing a RAID0 RAID1 controller and two new HDDs. Ahhh... the joys of reinstalling everything you have ever used! :(( I know many of you have been where I am now. Empathy and sympathy are both being accepted. :)
If you don't want to reinstall everything in the future, use RAID1. Kind regards, Tim
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After arriving at work I discovered that my PC died over the weekend. I have spent the past 4 hours installing a RAID0 RAID1 controller and two new HDDs. Ahhh... the joys of reinstalling everything you have ever used! :(( I know many of you have been where I am now. Empathy and sympathy are both being accepted. :)
Tom Welch wrote: After arriving at work I discovered that my PC died over the weekend. I have spent the past 4 hours installing a RAID0 controller and two new HDDs. Ahhh... the joys of reinstalling everything you have ever used! I know many of you have been where I am now. Empathy and sympathy are both being accepted. A guy about 2m from me is installing everything again in his new toy machine. The only hope from him is that he's going to a machine with 4 times more memory, 10 times more hard disk, his hard disk will be 3 times faster, the bus will be 6 times faster and the CPU is going to be 4 times faster. Not to mention his new GeForce4 will be welcome in LAN fun after hours :) Does this make you feel better? :) Acting as a substitute for God, he becomes a dispenser of justice. - Alexandre Dumas
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If you don't want to reinstall everything in the future, use RAID1. Kind regards, Tim
Tim Ranker wrote: If you don't want to reinstall everything in the future, use RAID1. Or RAID5. Acting as a substitute for God, he becomes a dispenser of justice. - Alexandre Dumas
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Tom Welch wrote: After arriving at work I discovered that my PC died over the weekend. I have spent the past 4 hours installing a RAID0 controller and two new HDDs. Ahhh... the joys of reinstalling everything you have ever used! I know many of you have been where I am now. Empathy and sympathy are both being accepted. A guy about 2m from me is installing everything again in his new toy machine. The only hope from him is that he's going to a machine with 4 times more memory, 10 times more hard disk, his hard disk will be 3 times faster, the bus will be 6 times faster and the CPU is going to be 4 times faster. Not to mention his new GeForce4 will be welcome in LAN fun after hours :) Does this make you feel better? :) Acting as a substitute for God, he becomes a dispenser of justice. - Alexandre Dumas
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If you don't want to reinstall everything in the future, use RAID1. Kind regards, Tim
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After arriving at work I discovered that my PC died over the weekend. I have spent the past 4 hours installing a RAID0 RAID1 controller and two new HDDs. Ahhh... the joys of reinstalling everything you have ever used! :(( I know many of you have been where I am now. Empathy and sympathy are both being accepted. :)
My condolences... I usually have to do this every year or two, but that's Windows - I'm used to it. I've considered using RAID5, having three 60GB drives for this machine, but I don't know what kind of hit I'd take in performance by using the built-in RAID5 software. Perhaps the next time Windows self-destructs I'll give it a try.
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long -
My condolences... I usually have to do this every year or two, but that's Windows - I'm used to it. I've considered using RAID5, having three 60GB drives for this machine, but I don't know what kind of hit I'd take in performance by using the built-in RAID5 software. Perhaps the next time Windows self-destructs I'll give it a try.
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus LongI have used the built-in software raids a lot before I got a hardware raid controller. Works great, but uses a very small amount cpu. I got the hardware controller so i could boot on a raid0 ;) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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After arriving at work I discovered that my PC died over the weekend. I have spent the past 4 hours installing a RAID0 RAID1 controller and two new HDDs. Ahhh... the joys of reinstalling everything you have ever used! :(( I know many of you have been where I am now. Empathy and sympathy are both being accepted. :)
How's that for fun... you build up a complete PC, install a RAID1, set up everything, do a little dance of joy on friday noon, get home a bit early, and on monday, both HDD's and the power supply are die on power on.
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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I have used the built-in software raids a lot before I got a hardware raid controller. Works great, but uses a very small amount cpu. I got the hardware controller so i could boot on a raid0 ;) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
Anders Molin wrote: Works great, but uses a very small amount cpu. That's good news! I suppose I could create a boot volume on one of the drives, then RAID5 the rest of the space. Three 60GB drives would then have, say, 10GB as separate, bootable volumes, then 50GB each in RAID5 configuration for a giant 100GB volume. It's too late now, since I have stuff spread all over the drives, but next time Windows chokes I'll give it a try.:-D
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long -
Anders Molin wrote: Works great, but uses a very small amount cpu. That's good news! I suppose I could create a boot volume on one of the drives, then RAID5 the rest of the space. Three 60GB drives would then have, say, 10GB as separate, bootable volumes, then 50GB each in RAID5 configuration for a giant 100GB volume. It's too late now, since I have stuff spread all over the drives, but next time Windows chokes I'll give it a try.:-D
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus LongI have never tried raid5, but if you have a harddisk you boot from it can mirror it to an empty disk, making a raid1, maybe its possible to do that too with a raid5 if you have your "bootdisk" and 2 empty disks - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"