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Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:36 am Post subject:
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Today I will be formatting my PC. I have had several issues lately with my PC and a format is always a good thing from time to time.
My problems are due to one of two things: bad microsoft update or motherboard drivers. I did both one day a few weeks ago and have had nothing but trouble since. I have been getting more issues everyday.
Hopefully I'll be back real soon, depends on how much stuff I need to get done this weekend.
Seems like the biggest issue is always remembering how to set up my dual harddrives as one in raid. Striped, Mirrored, Raid 1, Raid 0, Raid 2, Raid the refrigerator, strip in front of the mirror, it's all so confusing! You would think I should have that memorized by now. After I get that figured out it will be real easy to get everything up and running and all my tweaking done.
I'm also going to switch to a HDMI to HDMI connection for my monitor.
Currently I have been using DVI to HDMI.
I'm curious as to which one will look the best.
Hope to shoot at everyone soon! 
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject:
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| {uZa}Studdog +SC+ wrote: | Today I will be formatting my PC. I have had several issues lately with my PC and a format is always a good thing from time to time.
My problems are due to one of two things: bad microsoft update or motherboard drivers. I did both one day a few weeks ago and have had nothing but trouble since. I have been getting more issues everyday.
Hopefully I'll be back real soon, depends on how much stuff I need to get done this weekend.
Seems like the biggest issue is always remembering how to set up my dual harddrives as one in raid. Striped, Mirrored, Raid 1, Raid 0, Raid 2, Raid the refrigerator, strip in front of the mirror, it's all so confusing! You would think I should have that memorized by now. After I get that figured out it will be real easy to get everything up and running and all my tweaking done.
I'm also going to switch to a HDMI to HDMI connection for my monitor.
Currently I have been using DVI to HDMI.
I'm curious as to which one will look the best.
Hope to shoot at everyone soon! |
I am NOT a big fan of raid. It's fine on a server with tape backup so you have the ability to swap out a hard drive easily if one dies, but it's not a good use of two hard drives on a home machine. Yes, it protects you from a hard drive crash in that you can just buy a new one and plug it in and you are fixed... However, it does NOT act as a "backup" which is far more important. If you screw up your operating system, get a horrible virus, ect, the bad stuff just gets written to both drives via raid, and you are reformating and starting over from scratch (and what do you do about your data, pictures, music etc?).
Better approach with two hard drives is:
*Set one up as C and install Windows on it.
*Set one up as D and use if for backup
*Install Acronis True Image Home (or some other good backup software like Norton Ghost or whatever)
*After you install Windows and get all your drivers installed, take an image with Acronis and save it to D: Name this "Baseline".
*Have Acronis take a FULL image every night while you are asleep and save to D: Name this "Daily".
* If C: crashes, you buy a new drive, install it, pop in the Acronis CD, restore "Daily" from D: and you are back where you were in about 1/2 hour
* If D: crashes, you buy a new drive, install it, and Acronis will recreate your backup that night.
* If your system gets a virus or really screwed up and you don't notice it for a couple of days, pop in the Acronis CD, restore "Baseline" and you have a fresh install in about 15 minutes with all drivers installed (instead of an all day job).
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:26 pm Post subject:
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I would assume he's talking about striping the drives?
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject:
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What do you guys think of this set up.
I currently have a 160 and a 80 GB hard drive. I was thinking about getting 2 500 GB HD and 2 external enclosures. (one for the 500, the 80 is for traveling with)
Take the 160 and partition it with 20GB (C: for OS) and 140GB (D: for Apps)
Then have one 500GB in the case and one in the enclosure connected via eSATA. The 500's would be in a mirrored RAID. This would of course be my E: drive for backup, photos, and videos (primarily).
* The thought is if the C:/D: drive fails, I can restore from the backup on E:
* If one of the RAID drives fail, then replace it and it replicates. (Pictures and Videos VERY important)
* If the system gets screwed as LE mentioned. Go to the Baseline images for the C:/D: drives, and diligently clean anything that may have gotten to the E:.
* If something happens and I need to leave the house in an emergency, (IE. Fire). Grab the external HD and RUN! My backup is there and all my precious files.
It's roughly a $250 strategy (drives, backup software and enclosures), but I think it's worth it.
Comments?
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject:
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| {uZa}CrazySpinner wrote: | What do you guys think of this set up.
I currently have a 160 and a 80 GB hard drive. I was thinking about getting 2 500 GB HD and 2 external enclosures. (one for the 500, the 80 is for traveling with)
Take the 160 and partition it with 20GB (C: for OS) and 140GB (D: for Apps)
Then have one 500GB in the case and one in the enclosure connected via eSATA. The 500's would be in a mirrored RAID. This would of course be my E: drive for backup, photos, and videos (primarily).
* The thought is if the C:/D: drive fails, I can restore from the backup on E:
* If one of the RAID drives fail, then replace it and it replicates. (Pictures and Videos VERY important)
* If the system gets screwed as LE mentioned. Go to the Baseline images for the C:/D: drives, and diligently clean anything that may have gotten to the E:.
* If something happens and I need to leave the house in an emergency, (IE. Fire). Grab the external HD and RUN! My backup is there and all my precious files.
It's roughly a $250 strategy (drives, backup software and enclosures), but I think it's worth it.
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Sounds pretty good to me...
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject:
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| {uZa}CrazySpinner wrote: | What do you guys think of this set up.
I currently have a 160 and a 80 GB hard drive. I was thinking about getting 2 500 GB HD and 2 external enclosures. (one for the 500, the 80 is for traveling with)
Take the 160 and partition it with 20GB (C: for OS) and 140GB (D: for Apps)
Then have one 500GB in the case and one in the enclosure connected via eSATA. The 500's would be in a mirrored RAID. This would of course be my E: drive for backup, photos, and videos (primarily).
* The thought is if the C:/D: drive fails, I can restore from the backup on E:
* If one of the RAID drives fail, then replace it and it replicates. (Pictures and Videos VERY important)
* If the system gets screwed as LE mentioned. Go to the Baseline images for the C:/D: drives, and diligently clean anything that may have gotten to the E:.
* If something happens and I need to leave the house in an emergency, (IE. Fire). Grab the external HD and RUN! My backup is there and all my precious files.
It's roughly a $250 strategy (drives, backup software and enclosures), but I think it's worth it.
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external HD FTW!
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject:
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I use a 160GB Maxtor for my main boot drive. I still trust myself more than I do the computer for backing up what is important. My slave drive is a 320GB Seagate. I manually back up files to my slave, and also encrypt them.
I am waiting for blu-ray burners to drop in price and become more the norm so I can then also burn my data to a much larger disc. I don't want to keep investing in multiple drives etc.
But like Eagle said, "ghosting" etc is a much better way to go.
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:24 am Post subject:
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I'm back!
I installed my XP Pro 64 bit on c: which is two Raptor drives in raid 0.
I have two more drives that run as single drives as my back-up/storage drives. One has all personal files, pictures, documents, video, ect... and the other has back-up copies of installation software, games, cd's, dvd's, ect...
Remembering to use raid 0, making driver floppy, and installing both raid drivers is what I always have trouble remembering. This time I made notes before, during and stored the notes in my motherboard's box. It went smooth this time.
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject:
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Glad to see you survived Studdog...
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject:
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I hope your computer behaves this time Stud. 
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