I have an old P-II 450 that I'd like to upgrade the filesystem on and
I am thinking a few different approaches. I'd like some opinions to
further my thinking on the matter.
The simplest idea:
I can get two or three 250G ATA drives to put into the machine and
perhaps software RAID them, or not.
The next idea:
Get three 250G SATA drives and two (2 channel) PCI SATA controllers.
I'm still limited by the 133MB/sec PCI bus speed, but when I get
around to upgrading the motherboard/cpu I won't have to get new drives
to increase speed.
One question: How big of a pain in the butt is it to boot off drives
attached to external SATA controllers?
The next next idea:
Get two 250G SATA drives, one (two channel) SATA controller and get an
ATA system drive.
Any thoughts on this?
--Mark Bishop http://www.bish.net http://blog.bish.net
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