My new BEAST

[L_A_N_Chiken]

I just finished building my new comp, ohh the lovely thing,

SPECS:
Case:Clear acrylic
MB: Fatality AN8 SLI
HD: 2 200gig SATA
VID: 2 Gigabyte NVIDIA Geforce 6600 GT, SLI
CPU: AMD Atholon 64 3700 socket 939
RAM: Corsair Twinx dual 512
CPU heatsink: thermalright 120
PSU:Turbo Cool 510
OS: XP pro
standard floppy drive
with 120mm aluminum fan for cpu heatsink

Ahhh, FEEL THE POWER!
:band:
no more of this :computer:
or this :banging:
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
now all i have to do is reinstall ablosutly EVERY THING
and set my 2nd hd up to raid well will see you chikens on HW2 when i get it instlled and updated

[LoogieChiken]

What RAID level are you going to be using? If Stripe ( RAID 0 ) then you are probably going to need a reinstall of your OS. If RAID 1 ( Mirror ) then you need to think about the impact on write speeds that is going to have.

Also, make sure you are using hardware RAID and not doing it through XP.

A really good guide to RAID and the concepts aroudn it can be found at...
http://www.acnc.com/raid.html

Basically all RAID levels ( other than 0 ( Striping )) are used for fault tolerance. Striping provides no fault tolerance but will improve access speeds - esp. if the drives are on different controllers.

[OmegaChiken]

yea xp is like bad and stuff

[L_A_N_Chiken]

ya i know about raid, i am probly gana mirror them, well i'll ither mirror or just have 2 hard drives 400g instead of 200g but im not sure i will use that much space, and it would be a pain to have to reinstall everything and set it all up again.

[LoogieChiken]

Some software mirrors will require a rebuild - if you hardware mirror it the chances are you wont need a rebuild. With a mirror, though, you will have much slower write times since you are writing the data twice.

[renegade_chiken]

No you don't loogie because the hard drives write simultaneously. It will be the same speed as 1 normal drive. If you mirror them you will only have 200 gigs (yeah, only my ass) and when you stripe em you will have 400.

[OmegaChiken]

i got about 300 gigs in this machine right now and i havent even used half yet lol

[Snake-Chiken]

"VID: 2 Gigabyte NVIDIA Geforce 6600 GT, SLI "


Let me know if this breaks on you. Ive went threw 2 of these in new systems i have built. Not the AGP version it seems ok.

[L_A_N_Chiken]

and if i stripe um and one goes bad i loose everything, thnks but no,

snake what power supplies are you putting in those systems?

[Snake-Chiken]

1 450 and one 500

[LoogieChiken]

As I said L_A_N - Stripe is for performance, Mirror is for fault tolerance. Go with what you need.

Omega - you are right, Mirror is the least efficient RAID but no worse than single drive. I am still stuck in the mind set of useing older RAID controllers and *gasp* software RAID.

[L_A_N_Chiken]

snake are your power supplies sli ready??

[P5yNerGy]

Wow 2 SLI 6600 !! :o . I heard SLI only gives a card a 130% boost at most. Id go for a single 6800 ;) for less

[CRUSCHIKEN]

Mind boggling,,,,,,,,,,............TMI