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xMTone · 26-10-2005, 04:14 PM

Hi,

After hard drive failure, I have got two new Raptor HDs and a 2-ch RAID capable SATA controller. I have a few questions:

[1] My original plan was to have one disk house OS/applications, and the other as more of a data warehouse. I thought this would improve performance, i.e. if an app needs to read something off disk while it's running, it would have a separate HD channel to record audio, for example. But what about this RAID striping thing? Would that be even better performance? Is there any way to meaningfully back up such a setup (because that is a must for this situation)? I have an external HD with Restrospect software, would that cut it?

[2] I bought some 2-fan low profile HD coolers, but they won't fit in my case. How concerned should I be about this considering 10K drive speeds? If it really made sense, I would convert over to a case with built in cooling.

[3] I'm starting over, but had XP installed on one of the drives and was trying to get it configured... I was having problems with the OS not recognizing "new" PCI card (new hardware wizard), which was actually installed during OS install. I tried shut down->remove card->start up->shut down->install card->start up, but this didn't work either (in fact it froze during boot whenever the hardware was removed or installed). If I remove everything non-essential before my rebuild then shut down and install it, should this take care of the problem?

I've been without a computer for 2 weeks, and now have all the parts I need, so any prompt advice would be veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery much appreciated!

26-10-2005, 04:14 PM	#1 (permalink) Top
xMTone Geek Trainee Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 21 Status: Offline My Computer	Rebuild strategy Hi, After hard drive failure, I have got two new Raptor HDs and a 2-ch RAID capable SATA controller. I have a few questions: [1] My original plan was to have one disk house OS/applications, and the other as more of a data warehouse. I thought this would improve performance, i.e. if an app needs to read something off disk while it's running, it would have a separate HD channel to record audio, for example. But what about this RAID striping thing? Would that be even better performance? Is there any way to meaningfully back up such a setup (because that is a must for this situation)? I have an external HD with Restrospect software, would that cut it? [2] I bought some 2-fan low profile HD coolers, but they won't fit in my case. How concerned should I be about this considering 10K drive speeds? If it really made sense, I would convert over to a case with built in cooling. [3] I'm starting over, but had XP installed on one of the drives and was trying to get it configured... I was having problems with the OS not recognizing "new" PCI card (new hardware wizard), which was actually installed during OS install. I tried shut down->remove card->start up->shut down->install card->start up, but this didn't work either (in fact it froze during boot whenever the hardware was removed or installed). If I remove everything non-essential before my rebuild then shut down and install it, should this take care of the problem? I've been without a computer for 2 weeks, and now have all the parts I need, so any prompt advice would be veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery much appreciated!