RAID 1

[Smokeyone]

Hi,

I am building a new system with the Abit AV8 3rd eye motherboard & AMD
Athlon 64 3200 winchester 90nm. I need advice please on hd's as I
would like to try out RAID 1 with mirror hd - just in case.

Thanks

Smokeyone

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hi,

I am building a new system with the Abit AV8 3rd eye motherboard & AMD
Athlon 64 3200 winchester 90nm. I need advice please on hd's as I

I doubt that. You are confusing two things here: 90nm is the
Athlon CPU manufacturing process. "Winchester" is an old
word for arddrive.

would like to try out RAID 1 with mirror hd - just in case.

The HDD advice is not different for RAID 1 than for single-drive.
Plenty of advice for that here and in the Google-Archives.

Arno

 

[DanielEKFA]

Hi,

I am building a new system with the Abit AV8 3rd eye motherboard & AMD
Athlon 64 3200 winchester 90nm. I need advice please on hd's as I
would like to try out RAID 1 with mirror hd - just in case.

Thanks

Smokeyone

If you don't mind using a little extra dough, you might want to purchase a
RAID5-capable card. That's striping with redundancy. Example: 8 disks, 7
disks worth of space. If any one disk should die, the array still works
with 100% data integrity, and you can add a new disk which will be
automatically rebuilt.

 

[Andy Lee]

I doubt that. You are confusing two things here: 90nm is the
Athlon CPU manufacturing process. "Winchester" is an old
word for arddrive.

AMD are using the Winchester moniker for the 90nm die 64 chips the
130nm were called Newcastle

The HDD advice is not different for RAID 1 than for single-drive.
Plenty of advice for that here and in the Google-Archives.

Arno

Indeed same drives as for single drives still the best performers are
the WD Raptors if you can justify the cost. I did recently and boy
they fly.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I doubt that. You are confusing two things here: 90nm is the
Athlon CPU manufacturing process. "Winchester" is an old
word for arddrive.

AMD are using the Winchester moniker for the 90nm die 64 chips the
130nm were called Newcastle[/QUOTE]

Oops, sorry. Bad naming on AMD's part though.

Indeed same drives as for single drives still the best performers are
the WD Raptors if you can justify the cost. I did recently and boy
they fly.

So expensive and hot for moe. I rather have lots of RAM.
But that is a matter of individual performance.

Arno

 

[Andy Lee]

Oops, sorry. Bad naming on AMD's part though.

I guess so if like me you are old enough to remember the old 12"
Winchester drives!

So expensive and hot for moe. I rather have lots of RAM.
But that is a matter of individual performance.

Lot's of RAM is good, never have too much. Heat can be a problem, mine
sit directly behind the 80mm intake fans in my Coolermaster case and
so stay reasonable but yes they are not cheap.


Andy

 

[Smokeyone]

If you don't mind using a little extra dough, you might want to purchase a
RAID5-capable card. That's striping with redundancy. Example: 8 disks, 7
disks worth of space. If any one disk should die, the array still works
with 100% data integrity, and you can add a new disk which will be
automatically rebuilt.

Thanks for the info. Can you suggest a RAID5-capable card thats via based.

Smokeyone

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Oops, sorry. Bad naming on AMD's part though.

So they can't call their next project Amsterdam because
they already named a cheese after it too? Damn!

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

AMD are using the Winchester moniker for the 90nm die 64 chips the
130nm were called Newcastle

You'll have to excuse Arnie, he has a clue, and that confuses him greatly.

 

[J. Clarke]

Thanks for the info. Can you suggest a RAID5-capable card thats via based.

You might want to go to the via site and read up on their RAID controller
chips. You'll find that what you're asking for is a pretty tall order.