Ok, so how does this sound. Get two PATA drives, mirror them in a
RAID. Then have two SATA drives on the external controller mirrored in
a RAID. My BIOS won't support an SATA card boot so I guess I am
stuck with PATA.
--Mark Bishop http://www.bish.net http://blog.bish.net
Quoting Eben King <eben01@verizon.net>:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Mark Bishop wrote: > >> 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. > > #1: > >> The simplest idea: >> I can get two or three 250G ATA drives to put into the machine and >> perhaps software RAID them, or not. > > #2: > >> 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. > > Assuming you don't have other cards that suck down PCI bandwidth (e.g. > SCSI or video capture), this sounds like a win. (Why three?) > >> One question: How big of a pain in the butt is it to boot off >> drives attached to external SATA controllers? > > Un-doable, unless your motherboard supports it. However, you may be > able to put the bootloader on your PATA drive, with /boot on your SATA > drive. You can certainly stick /boot and the bootloader on PATA. I > don't think you can boot from software RAID, although IANARAIDGuru. > > #3: > >> The next next idea: >> Get two 250G SATA drives, one (two channel) SATA controller and get >> an ATA system drive. >> >> Any thoughts on this? > > Is #3 just #2 - RAID? Cheaper, certainly. I'd say, if you can afford > RAID, go for it. > > -- > -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.no-ip.org:81 > > An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of > being called an idea at all. -Oscar Wilde > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked > Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages > posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the > official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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