Howdy people.
Right well I want to do a nice fresh install of windows... but I don't. I can't be assed with the hassle of installing programs, drivers again to know that I would have done something wrong in the custom install (nLite) and then messing around for days trying to perfect it. All this time I am left with no fully working PC.
So I thought why not buy some HDDs and then I can always switch back to my other HDD when I want to browse the net. This would only be temporary but I am thinking of moving over the X64 so it would make life easier.
At the moment I have a 74GB Raptor and a 250GB WD. The raptor is starting to wizz me off as I have just acquired 8 MB ADSL (been on 64k for 3 years) and I have been leaving my PC on. Only to be woken up at 3:00 AM by the sound of my raptor randomly grinding away. It sucks because it's a great speedy little thing but the sound... it's just to loud.
So what I thought I would do would be to buy a couple of 320GB HDD's and have them in...(trys to remember collage) RAID.... the one where it copies data to both drives... RAID 1 I think. These will be my windows and apps drives. Have the 250 GB HDD I have in my PC as a data drive. Videos etc... and the 74GB Raptor to put games on and anything which would use the performance boost.
Then to finish it off nicely have a MY Book 250GB to backup anything which could do with being backed up.
Humm.. perhaps it would be pointless to have the RAID setup then...
Your thoughts
EDIT:: Just a quick Q. Is SATA 2 back compatible with SATA 1 mobos?
Right well I want to do a nice fresh install of windows... but I don't. I can't be assed with the hassle of installing programs, drivers again to know that I would have done something wrong in the custom install (nLite) and then messing around for days trying to perfect it. All this time I am left with no fully working PC.
So I thought why not buy some HDDs and then I can always switch back to my other HDD when I want to browse the net. This would only be temporary but I am thinking of moving over the X64 so it would make life easier.
At the moment I have a 74GB Raptor and a 250GB WD. The raptor is starting to wizz me off as I have just acquired 8 MB ADSL (been on 64k for 3 years) and I have been leaving my PC on. Only to be woken up at 3:00 AM by the sound of my raptor randomly grinding away. It sucks because it's a great speedy little thing but the sound... it's just to loud.
So what I thought I would do would be to buy a couple of 320GB HDD's and have them in...(trys to remember collage) RAID.... the one where it copies data to both drives... RAID 1 I think. These will be my windows and apps drives. Have the 250 GB HDD I have in my PC as a data drive. Videos etc... and the 74GB Raptor to put games on and anything which would use the performance boost.
Then to finish it off nicely have a MY Book 250GB to backup anything which could do with being backed up.
Humm.. perhaps it would be pointless to have the RAID setup then...
Your thoughts
EDIT:: Just a quick Q. Is SATA 2 back compatible with SATA 1 mobos?
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