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David M · 02-02-2007, 10:40 AM

That did not work....thanks for the help Fulton.

I decided to take one of the Raptor drives and load the OS on that. I bought a 250Gig SATA drive and will use that as my large storage drive. So what if the computer goes a fraction slower..at least it will be more reliable now.

No more messing with RAID for me...too much of a hassle. The next computer that goes south on me gets everything loaded onto one large hard drive. JBOD is much better than RAID in my limited experience with computers.

I still have an external 500Gig HD on a network that backs up my home computers.

02-02-2007, 10:40 AM	#3
David M Techphile. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: San Francisco Bay Posts: 5,956	That did not work....thanks for the help Fulton. I decided to take one of the Raptor drives and load the OS on that. I bought a 250Gig SATA drive and will use that as my large storage drive. So what if the computer goes a fraction slower..at least it will be more reliable now. No more messing with RAID for me...too much of a hassle. The next computer that goes south on me gets everything loaded onto one large hard drive. JBOD is much better than RAID in my limited experience with computers. I still have an external 500Gig HD on a network that backs up my home computers. __________________ Asus P8P67 WS Revolution \| Intel 2600K @ 4.7 GHz \| Win 7 Pro 64 \|8 gigs Corsair 1600 \| Two Diamond 6990's in Crossfire\| Corsair AX1200 \| Thermalright Silver Arrow \| Western Digital Black 2TB 64 meg cache \| Lian-Li PC-A71B \| Logitec Z-5500 \| Three Asus 26" VW266H monitors running under Eyefinity \| Last edited by David M; 02-02-2007 at 10:55 AM.