Re: server upgrade

[Tom Dison <fretinator@yahoo.com>]

Oops, my text was whacked. I was going to say that on an old box like this (of which I have several), I would just go with the cheaper solution. I would just pop some big drives in it and forget the whole SATA thing. 

Tom Dison <fretinator@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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.
> >
> > 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?
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