ho hum. I was getting low on disk space, so have just bought a pair of Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB's
I currently have a pair of 300gb drives in RAID as my main system drive, i was intending to use the new drives to replace that and migrate the array over to the new disks.
But i only have two raid ports on my motherboard (GA DS3).. so that scuppered that plan. Also leaves me with the problem of how do i get my data accross.. i dont have another 600gb drive i can copy the array to, remove the array, add the new one and then copy it back.
So i guess that leaves me with getting a PCI SATA RAID card, but which one? I assume that even a cheap(er) one will be quicker than my now quite aged DS3's RAID controller?
I currently have a pair of 300gb drives in RAID as my main system drive, i was intending to use the new drives to replace that and migrate the array over to the new disks.
But i only have two raid ports on my motherboard (GA DS3).. so that scuppered that plan. Also leaves me with the problem of how do i get my data accross.. i dont have another 600gb drive i can copy the array to, remove the array, add the new one and then copy it back.
So i guess that leaves me with getting a PCI SATA RAID card, but which one? I assume that even a cheap(er) one will be quicker than my now quite aged DS3's RAID controller?