Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:26:55 -0600 From: Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware) Message-ID: <20031120062655.060c4d7b.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <xzp1xs3mlyn.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200311190158.hAJ1wNOi000727@mist.nodomain> <20031119035315.61bbe274.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <xzp1xs3mlyn.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've got EVERYTHING picked out BUT the harddrive and controller card for the hard drive. Do you have any recommendations (seagate model #????) on the hard drive and/or controller card for a IDE HD? I'm kinda confused. I see people talking about RAID but not really sure what it is and what it does? Maybe you could explain a little to me? On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:24:32 +0100 des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) wrote: > Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> writes: > > Hard drive: > > SEAGATE SCSI 36.0GB 10000RPM, MODEL# ST336607LW -X10 >=20 > Don't bother with SCSI. It's definitely faster than IDE, but it's not > worth the price for a desktop system. You'll probably be a lot > happier running a RAID0 over two 120GB IDE drives (provided your > motherboard has a RAID BIOS, or you buy a dual-channel PCI RAID > adapter such as the Promise TX2000) >=20 > DES > --=20 > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/vLMPjnOL7dYm/EQRApPIAKDuo08pkX7HPALsS6Pt7eYnEq2B8gCg7nHS xFAU1quhwz1SpSAWO7cN9As=3D =3Djnnu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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