New Hard Drive

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
>> On Tue August 14 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>  Thanks a lot! I know what to ask when I talk with them :-)
>>> To be safe I better get a power adapter as well. This sure is looking
>>> like a Rube Goldberg change and I dislike these.
>>
>> It really isn't. I've got lots of machines at my work using varieties 
>> of this configuration. Once you've done it once, you'll never look 
>> back. SATA is a lot faster, even using a card in an older box. 
>
> How much better will depend on how old the IDE you replaced was.  SATA 
> is faster but you won't see a huge difference from recent IDE models.
>
    I will be learning a lot over the next few days. I was able to stop 
shipping of the sata hard drive and the controller and yes I would have 
to buy all the new cables at $18 bucks :-\

    But now I am trying to learn how to make a Software RAID1 system. I 
Goggled and got some serious but very old data which I printed out :-)  
and hope to be able to apply to F7 but it looks bad now. I will try man 
raid and such as that before I attack the raid job. And it will take 3-5 
days to get the new IDE 160 GB HD ;-)

    So away we go.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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