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TampaDrDon
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December 29th, 2005 01:00
I've put in 2 more SATA's
I've got a 9100. I replaced the original drives and put in two more (all WD 74 GB 10 K rpm drives). So my 1st (striped) RAID 0 is functioning. The other RAID 1 is seen as a volume in the BIOS, and by the controller (at boot up). I can't see them by My Computer or in the Device manager. I tried to run FDisk but it's not on my system. Where do I go from here.
Don
johnman144
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Posted December 29th, 2005 02:00
Don:
It looks like I am about to do the same thing as you installing 74 gb raptors. I am not sure how to use RAID so if you could give me some advice i would appreciate it.
I have the 8400 with a 3.2 processor 3 gb of ddr2 533 ram. the computer came with a 160 WD HDD I want to setup the raptor as my boot drive and just put programs on it and use the 160 for files, I would like to install a third SATA 200 gb and just use that as backups, I figure backup once a week and should be able to hold 4 weeks on the 200 and delete the first as i add additional backups.
I have all the original CDs to install on the raptor, but thought there might be an easier way to just copy the original disk to the raptor, then delete all the programs on the 160, then backup everything to the 200. Is my understanding correct or flawed ?? or should i just start by formatting the raptor installing all the programs, format the 160 install all my files, then backup everything on the 200.
any help would be appreciated
john
johnman144@yahoo.com