On 26 Feb, 21:16, Doug Burton <slu...@embarqmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Gukumatz wrote:
>
>
> Hi guku, I did what you're planning to do, but mine was a 350 Mhz B&W
> and I used an ATA controller card with 4 data drives and 1 boot HD.
> It was a nightmare of cables, but it worked fine otherwise. I used
> this setup for 6-8 months before I got a deal on 2 DA's (533 Mhz) and
> decided to upgrade as the DA has a faster bus and gigabit ethernet
> built in. At the same time I also upgraded to a 4 port SATA card
> with 4-300 Gb SATA HD's. At first I ran it with all the drives
> inside the case, but decided to go with long SATA cables and an
> external case for the 4 data drives. The next planned upgrade will
> be to 2-1 Tb drives, but I'm waiting for the price to drop a bit
> more. BTW, I use ChronoSync 4 to keep the backup drives current HTH
> .
> 1st Hack: GA-945GCMX-S2 - E4500 CPU (2.2 Ghz) - 2 Gb RAM - 7200 GS
> (256 Mb)
> 2nd Hack: GA-P35-DS3L (V2) - E8400 CPU (3.0 Ghz -45nm) - 4 Gb RAM -
> 7200 GS (256 Mb)
> 3rd Hack: MSI Wind Desktop PC - 945GC - Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz CPU - 2 Gb
> RAM
> 4th Hack: GA-EP45-UD3P - Q9550 (2.83 Ghz C2 Quad) - 8 Gb RAM - 8400
> GS (256 Mb)
Thanks for the reply Doug, I'm reassured that my plans should work as
I hope and can now start assembling all the bits'n'bobs to build
mine. :-D
cheers
guku
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