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Chris
Hello Group,
I just ordered a brand spanking new AMD Socket 939 rig and am
currently awaiting its arrival. I decided to forgo using RAID 0
because I have concerns about one disk biting the dust and causing me
more misery than I could ever possibly want.
Now, on to my question, how on earth should I set up my Western
Digital Raptor Hard Drive on the SATA Raid controller, being it will
be the sole drive on that controller?
Following are the specs of my "in transit" system:
Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-K8NSNXP-939 NF3 250
CPU - AMD 64 3500+ ATHLON 64 939 RT
Hard drive 1 - 74GB WD 10,000RPM 8MB WD740GD (for the OS; I haven't
the slightest clue how to configure one hard drive on the raid
controller, hence the purpose of this post)
Hard drive 2 - 200GB WD 7200 WD2000JD 8MB (for backup and storage and
I plan to put this drive on the Silicon Image Controller - set this up
in BASE mode?????)
Memory - CORSAIR 1GB PC3200XLPRO
CASE - COOLERMASTER WAVE MASTER
POWER - ENERMAX 470W EG475AX-VE-SFMA
VIDEO CARD - GAINWARD GEFORCE FX5900XT GS 1100 128M
DVDROM - LITE ON 16X SOHD-167T BLACK
DVDRW - LITEON SOHW-812S BLACK
FLOPPY/CARD READER - MITSUMI FA404A/404M
Sound - SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY 2 ZS PLTM
Lastly, this new machine better outperform my 2.5 year old AMD Athlon
XP 2000+ on a Gigabyte GA 7DX+ motherboard with one gig of Corsair
memory otherwise my wife will kill me for "needing" a new computer.
Thanks for any assistance provided.
Chris
I just ordered a brand spanking new AMD Socket 939 rig and am
currently awaiting its arrival. I decided to forgo using RAID 0
because I have concerns about one disk biting the dust and causing me
more misery than I could ever possibly want.
Now, on to my question, how on earth should I set up my Western
Digital Raptor Hard Drive on the SATA Raid controller, being it will
be the sole drive on that controller?
Following are the specs of my "in transit" system:
Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-K8NSNXP-939 NF3 250
CPU - AMD 64 3500+ ATHLON 64 939 RT
Hard drive 1 - 74GB WD 10,000RPM 8MB WD740GD (for the OS; I haven't
the slightest clue how to configure one hard drive on the raid
controller, hence the purpose of this post)
Hard drive 2 - 200GB WD 7200 WD2000JD 8MB (for backup and storage and
I plan to put this drive on the Silicon Image Controller - set this up
in BASE mode?????)
Memory - CORSAIR 1GB PC3200XLPRO
CASE - COOLERMASTER WAVE MASTER
POWER - ENERMAX 470W EG475AX-VE-SFMA
VIDEO CARD - GAINWARD GEFORCE FX5900XT GS 1100 128M
DVDROM - LITE ON 16X SOHD-167T BLACK
DVDRW - LITEON SOHW-812S BLACK
FLOPPY/CARD READER - MITSUMI FA404A/404M
Sound - SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY 2 ZS PLTM
Lastly, this new machine better outperform my 2.5 year old AMD Athlon
XP 2000+ on a Gigabyte GA 7DX+ motherboard with one gig of Corsair
memory otherwise my wife will kill me for "needing" a new computer.
Thanks for any assistance provided.
Chris