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| IG-88:
I really like Kymaera. I'm sure it does that.....right PacManFan? |
| photorock:
Hey IG-88 I normally don't post here alot, but I saw your post and was reading the responses and I thought to myself using that Raid card is a nightmare just waiting to happen. Maybe it's only me, there's no fault tolerence (raid 5) with that card or atleast I didn't read it anywhere. So if one drive fails... your back to square one. All info accross the striped set will be lost. I would suggest to you to find a 20GB drive somewhere and use that to hold your Mame files and one of your other drives to host the OS. Put your Swap file on the same drive as Mame. It may be better to spent the $30 or $40 to save the headache down the road, especially in a cab (lots of abuse) 5HD's - 5 chances of failure. It's just a thought! |
| IG-88:
So one drive failure would wipe out everything else in the other drives? Why is that? It's just that I got all these stupid old HD's sitting around....I spose I could just ebay 'em. :( |
| brained:
--- Quote from: photorock on June 25, 2004, 10:07:33 am --- Hey IG-88 I normally don't post here alot, but I saw your post and was reading the responses and I thought to myself using that Raid card is a nightmare just waiting to happen. Maybe it's only me, there's no fault tolerence (raid 5) with that card or atleast I didn't read it anywhere. So if one drive fails... your back to square one. All info accross the striped set will be lost. I would suggest to you to find a 20GB drive somewhere and use that to hold your Mame files and one of your other drives to host the OS. Put your Swap file on the same drive as Mame. It may be better to spent the $30 or $40 to save the headache down the road, especially in a cab (lots of abuse) 5HD's - 5 chances of failure. It's just a thought! --- End quote --- I think he's telling big INFO here!!. Better get a bigger drive... |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: IG-88 on June 25, 2004, 10:14:11 am ---So one drive failure would wipe out everything else in the other drives? Why is that? It's just that I got all these stupid old HD's sitting around....I spose I could just ebay 'em. :( --- End quote --- Only if you use a raid array, (or possibly Krick's JBOD idea, not sure, hadn't heard of that before). |
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