Re: Confused


"Cydrome Leader" <presence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Todd Hayslett <trhisdone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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"kampyjoe" <u37736@uwe> wrote in message news:78c621c040eea@xxxxxx
I got a Gigabyte Motherboard GA-8IP775-G at an auction at my job. I`m
trying
to make fast CPU and i`m wanting something faster than IDE. The MB has
SATA
and IDE connectors but i`m really debating on going to a SCSI
harddrive.
I
am
totally lost and confused on SCSI`s, can I get some help PLEASE!


My question is why do you want to add $2000 worth of hardware to a el
cheapo
MB. I had the same situation in reverse I picked up a bunch of scsi
cheap
so
it was worth it. It is honestly such a pain in the *** for home users
like
myself that it almost isn't worth any performance gain you get unless
you
have the time to research it and get the scsi hardware cheap. I just
added
500 gb of mirrored sata for around $200.. yes its a waste of 500 gb yes
its
a little slow on writes.. but try to add 500 gb of scsi storage for
$200.. I
spent all most that much on 68pin to 80pin adapters and cables for the
scsi
stuff i got. There is a reason SCSI never landed on the mainstream
users
machine. It's expensive, it's complicated and sometimes can make you
just
want to pick your computer up and throw it out the window. Not to
mention
the fact that every single piece of hardware you add to your comptuer
may
or
may not work. Oh yeah forget all that crap about how Raid 5 is gonna
save
your data.. you still need to backup.. just wait till your raid 5 loses
2
hard drives and you scream bloody murder. Better to buy cheaper
equipment
and realize that Norton Ghost 12 is your best friend not RAID 5...
There
is
a reason you go to the computer center at your job and there are 12
people
in there sitting around... LOL... they are waiting for something to go
wrong.. I had a power glitch that failed 2 drives in one of my RAID 5
arrays.. there was nothing wrong with the drives.. the problem was I
don't
have $500 for an online UPS..... Yes its a cool geek factor and people
ohh
on aww over your 5 drive cage's but heck you can get that in SATA
flavor
a
lot cheaper...

Todd

In case you ever need to recover a failed RAID group, even hardware
based,
I highly suggest the tools from runtime software. I was able to recover
a
ton of important data using their stuff. This includes unix over windows
installations, and RAID controllers that freaked out and tagged good
drives bad and then started to try to make a new raid group (not
recover)
on the old one. The pricing is reasonable and the support is good.

I'm not associated with the, but I'll do anything to stick it to those
data recovery scam places. I was quoted around $5000 to get data off
that
raid card that freaked out. In the end, it cost like $80 and two days of
time to get 100% of my data back.

I use all my raid 5 arrays for online movie storage so I can stream
movies
to any room in my house. When my my Raid 5 array failed I had to reload
around 100 dvd's back onto it. This was exactly what happened. The 2
drives
failed then the card tried to add back in the failed drives and it
corrupted
all the data. While a pain in the *** it wasn't critical. I long ago
learned to back up critical data to several places and use Norton Ghost.
Norton Ghost 12 is the best ghosting/backup program for home users. It's
easy but also powerful when you get into it. There is nothing better than
reloading your OS to previous state in 5 min. I only wish the had made
Ghost
12 work on win2k.. sigh....

Todd



Does ghost allow you to do selective backup/restores? Say you only want 15
files, not an entire restore of your machine?

It's in there but honestly I have not used that feature. I just reimage the
whole drive. It only takes like 5 min for a 10GB image stored on a USB
drive. It has saved me so many times when you install some buggy software.
Just reboot with the boot cd and reimage.. takes about 5 min..

Todd


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