Re: [Scottish] Scottish Digest, Vol 257, Issue 1

2009-08-07 Thread Roland Ward
scottish-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:54:17 +0100 > From: Julian Gibson > Subject: [Scottish] Hardware question? > To: SLUG-list > Message-ID: <4a7b18c9.5010...@rjmg.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > All > > I've "acquired"

Re: [Scottish] Hardware question?

2009-08-07 Thread Julian Gibson
The 670 has 2 SATA connectors on the mobo as well as well as the onboard SCSI. I'd prefer to not use the inbuilt hardware raid. My current desktop has a single 80GB IDE for /, /boot, swap etc and a pair of 300GB SATAs for /home (Raid 1 on /dev/md0) on the basis that my data is more important than

Re: [Scottish] Hardware question?

2009-08-07 Thread rayH
On Friday 07 August 2009 16:37:12 Julian Gibson wrote: > The 670 has 2 SATA connectors on the mobo as well as well as the > onboard SCSI. According to: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ws670/en/ug_en/ Your box has 3x3.5in bays and 3x5.25in bays. So if you don't need 3 optical drive