I need some advice
At home I have a Dell 600SC. Its got a 2.4Ghz P4/533fsb, 1GB ECC/Parity RAM and Server 2000 Advanced.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pe600sc/en/ug/1r234c10.htm#1031041
It works great!
This motherboard has 3 IDE Channels and currently on it I have:
Channel 1
OS Drive (20GB)
DVD ROM
Channel 2
120GB WD/8MB Cache
120GB WD/8MB Cache
Channel 3
160GB Maxtor/8MB Cache
DVD+/- RW Sony DRU500A
Something like this layout I believe. Really the layout doesnt matter. Anyway Ill get to the point.
I dont have any RAID going on (and no SCSI options currently), they are all setup as independent disks and I have a LOT of data on them Id hate to lose after all these years.
I need a solution that would give me some redundancy and would obviously like to get larger drive for more capacity and growth.
Ive contemplated going with 3 or 4, 400GB IDE Drives and just doing software raid which I know is slow but I dont really care as its mainly just me accessing the data on this device. But I dont want to waste my time with this method if it really isnt feasible for me to ever swap a drive out and expect to recover my array.
Im looking for opinions and suggestions on what route I can go. I'll provide any additonal information I can as requested. Obviously I would like to keep this as cost effective as possible. (I'd like to try and do it for under $500 or $750 if possible)
At home I have a Dell 600SC. Its got a 2.4Ghz P4/533fsb, 1GB ECC/Parity RAM and Server 2000 Advanced.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pe600sc/en/ug/1r234c10.htm#1031041
It works great!
This motherboard has 3 IDE Channels and currently on it I have:
Channel 1
OS Drive (20GB)
DVD ROM
Channel 2
120GB WD/8MB Cache
120GB WD/8MB Cache
Channel 3
160GB Maxtor/8MB Cache
DVD+/- RW Sony DRU500A
Something like this layout I believe. Really the layout doesnt matter. Anyway Ill get to the point.
I dont have any RAID going on (and no SCSI options currently), they are all setup as independent disks and I have a LOT of data on them Id hate to lose after all these years.
I need a solution that would give me some redundancy and would obviously like to get larger drive for more capacity and growth.
Ive contemplated going with 3 or 4, 400GB IDE Drives and just doing software raid which I know is slow but I dont really care as its mainly just me accessing the data on this device. But I dont want to waste my time with this method if it really isnt feasible for me to ever swap a drive out and expect to recover my array.
Im looking for opinions and suggestions on what route I can go. I'll provide any additonal information I can as requested. Obviously I would like to keep this as cost effective as possible. (I'd like to try and do it for under $500 or $750 if possible)