--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Alan K Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nowhere near enough HDD capability - 2 * 160GB (min) in
> RAID Mirror for OS. 2 * 1TB in RAID Stripe for data. Extra
> single HDD for AP 'scratch' would be an advantage.
> HDDs are now very cheap.
A PCI Express SATA II RAID card with 4 or more ports, with RAID 5 support in
hardware would be very good. That way you can move the card and drives to
another PC without losing data. There are motherboards with onboard SATA RAID
controllers, but moving arrays to a different board is a problem unless the
other board has the same RAID chip. The "downside" is that PCIe hardware SATA
RAID controllers tend to not be cheap. Last I looked it was also hard to find
them with all *internal* ports, lots out there with two internal and two
external.
I have a 500GB SATA II RAID 5 array that cost me around $200, but I snagged the
controller on eBay and the drives are refurbished Seagate OEM 'white label'.
RAID 5 is the best compromise among cost, speed and data security. It spreads
parity data across all the drives so if any one drive dies it can be replaced
and the data rebuilt. RAID 0 stripes data for performance but if any drive
fails all the data is gone. Windows XP has software RAID functions, but what it
calls RAID 5 is really RAID 4 with all parity data on a single drive.
Functionally similar to RAID 5 but if the parity drive fails the array operates
as RAID 0.
> DVD drive is excellent but dump Nero. Nero started off very
> well but has become bloatware and often interferes with
> other programs.
You can do a custom install of Nero, installing only the burning program, but
then you still have to hunt down and kill Nero Scout, for which there is no
option to NOT install.
A very good FREEWARE alternative is Infra Recorder. It puts the data on the
disc. What more do you really need?
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