Re: server upgrade

[Tom Dison <fretinator@yahoo.com>]

Mark Bishop <mark@bish.net> 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.
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> The simplest idea:
> I can get two or three 250G ATA drives to put into the machine and  
> perhaps software  RAID them, or not.
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> 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.
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> One question: How big of a pain in the butt is it to boot off drives  
> attached to external SATA controllers?
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> The next next idea:
> Get two 250G SATA drives, one (two channel) SATA controller and get an 
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> ATA system drive.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
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> Mark Bishop
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