From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 03:22:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6607216A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 03:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7609043FB1 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 03:22:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b_cassidy@bellsouth.net) Received: from bellsouth.net ([68.214.80.19]) by imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.netSMTP <20031120112208.DNHT14203.imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net@bellsouth.net> for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:22:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:26:55 -0600 From: Bryan Cassidy To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20031120062655.060c4d7b.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: References: <200311190158.hAJ1wNOi000727@mist.nodomain> <20031119035315.61bbe274.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:22:13 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've got EVERYTHING picked out BUT the harddrive and controller card for the hard drive. Do you have any recommendations (seagate model #????) on the hard drive and/or controller card for a IDE HD? I'm kinda confused. I see people talking about RAID but not really sure what it is and what it does? Maybe you could explain a little to me? On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:24:32 +0100 des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) wrote: > Bryan Cassidy writes: > > Hard drive: > > SEAGATE SCSI 36.0GB 10000RPM, MODEL# ST336607LW -X10 >=20 > Don't bother with SCSI. It's definitely faster than IDE, but it's not > worth the price for a desktop system. You'll probably be a lot > happier running a RAID0 over two 120GB IDE drives (provided your > motherboard has a RAID BIOS, or you buy a dual-channel PCI RAID > adapter such as the Promise TX2000) >=20 > DES > --=20 > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/vLMPjnOL7dYm/EQRApPIAKDuo08pkX7HPALsS6Pt7eYnEq2B8gCg7nHS xFAU1quhwz1SpSAWO7cN9As=3D =3Djnnu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----