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Re: OT: Buying vs. building your own computer
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Atrocities said:Hey, what is a RAID system? And if it is what I think it is, how do you connect extra HD to it?
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Depends on the kind of RAID. When in doubt, check the wikipedia {link}.
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Re: OT: Buying vs. building your own computer
So a RAID system is really not worth the investment? Just do back ups onto CDRom or DVD and your ok. Thanks for the info guys.
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August 2nd, 2005, 09:59 AM
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Re: OT: Buying vs. building your own computer
I happen to be on HardDrive #7 and #8 due to a bad power supply.
However, due to the ability to read FAT32 partitions in floppy-booting DOS, I have not lost much. It may have taken a couple hours of power cycling, and copying like mad for 60 seconds before the disk destabilized and went whirr-scrape-clunk, but it was done 
Backups are very important and will save you a ton of hassle when murphy inevitably comes to visit.
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Re: OT: Buying vs. building your own computer
Raid is worth the money. It can save your data or give you speed, which ever you need. And SATA raids and drives are cheep these days.
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August 3rd, 2005, 05:17 PM
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Re: OT: Buying vs. building your own computer
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Also, this set up is not bootable.
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Everything else you said is spot-on but this is not true. They are indeed bootable even if you're RAID'ing with Windows and not true Hardware RAID - I do it all the time; Win2K, Win2K3, you name it.... |
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Re: OT: Buying vs. building your own computer
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Also, this set up is not bootable.
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Everything else you said is spot-on but this is not true. They are indeed bootable even if you're RAID'ing with Windows and not true Hardware RAID - I do it all the time; Win2K, Win2K3, you name it....
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Areed. With good hardware yes, but several popular desktop chipsets do not support it, and will corrupt the boot loader. So my answer in a forum such as this is that it is not bootable.
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