🚀 go-pugleaf

From the tone of your submission you could just use your ego is sufficiently
that you really don't need backup.  I doubt very much if anyone gives a
sweet rat's ass whether or not you're a dealer OEM or Santa Claus.  If
you've got so much money maybe you send a few $$ to the Red Cross in NYC to
help out the poor bastards down there.

If I were you I'd go out and get a big bottle of humble pills and start
taking them religiously; you really do need to cure your problem before it
spreads.

"GoldNKid" <goldnkid@hydrosoft.net> wrote in message
news:fb0a8a81.0109112042.26ceaae8@posting.google.com...
> Greetings all!
>
>
>
> I've been a lurker on USENET for a couple of years now (or close) and
> I value the opinion of a great many that post here. I'm getting ready
> to rape and pillage my system and do a serious upgrade. The first
> flame I'm going to get if is people are going to tell me to wait for
> Northwood - don't. I'm a Microsoft OEM and am a partner in a local
> computer consulting company so when the Northwood comes out, and drops
> in price, it'l get rip out the P4T and 1.8 and sell it to a client as
> a demo model.
>
>
>
> Here are the proposed specs of the new monster:
>
>
>
> Asus P4T Motherboard
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> 512 Meg Kingston PC800 RDRAM
>
> Intel P4 1.8 ghz Retail
>
> Enermax EG651P-VE 650 Watt Power Supply
>
> Existing Supermicro 750 Server Case
>
> Gainward Geforce 3 Golden Sample Powerpack Vivo
>
> SB Live v5.1 OEM
>
> Adaptec 39160 U160 Dual Channel SCSI Adadpter (Already own it)
>
> 4 Seagate ST318436LW U160 SCSI HD (I've already got two - running off
> of channel A of 39160)
>
> Plextor UltraPlex Wide (Own it and running it off of channel B of the
> 39160)
>
> Plextor 24/10/40 (Own it and running off of Primary Master)
>
> 3Com 3c-905-TX 10/100 Nic (Already got it)
>
> DirecPC Satellite PCI Modem (Already got it)
>
> Mylex ACCELERAID 170 U160 SCSI RAID 32MB
>
> Microsoft Windows XP Final as and OS (As an OEM I have mine already)
>
>
>
> I realize I may have to sacrifice my NIC as the P4T only supports 5
> PCI slots. I only use it once a month when I bring my laptop home from
> work to transfer filles. It would be just as easy to buy a USB based
> NIC to do those small transfers and burn everything large at work on
> CD to bring home (which is what I do most of time now anyway).
>
>
>
> My initial thought was to stripe the 4 Seagates and utilize that as my
> boot and data drive. I need the speed for two reasons: 1: I'm an
> impatient bastard and 2: I produce music and my system bogs down when
> I've got 60 or seventy samples running at the same time. Games scream
> off of those drives too. I also dabble in video owrk and the faster
> the drive the less time I have to wait for conversions, encodes and
> decodes.
>
>
>
> Then I realized I really need a backup system fot the 50+ growing gig
> of audio and video work I've done (not to mention the enevitable MP3
> collection). Right now I boot off of my SCSI drives and use a 60 gig
> 75GXP (selling it) for storage and "backup" but I know if that drives
> fails I'm pooched. I need a hgih speed backup option and am unwilling
> to spend the money on a DLT - plus I'd like to store my Outlook,
> Quicken, Favorites, and other such data on a drive that has redundancy
> and I don't want to slow down the 4 drives by putting the overhead of
> RAID 5 on it If it's my boot drive and audio and video processing
> platform. My solution was to purchase 4 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda
> ST380021a 80 Gig drives and an ATA100 based (Adaptec 2400A) RAID board
> setup with RAID 5 for redundancy. Veritas Backup v8.6 was then my
> choice to backup disk to disk.
>
>
>
> After reviewing the prices on equipment I started to have some doubts
> as to whether or not I was making the right decision. For the price of
> the Barracudas and 2400A I could buy a couple of Seagate ST336752LW
> 15k rpm drives for a couple of hundred dollars less. My question
> (after all this [grin]) is can I hook those up to the Mylex and run
> them in RAID 0 and take the remaining 4 18 gig Seagate drives and run
> them in RAID 5 for redundancy. Antoher question is has anybody had any
> luck in using Ghost Enterprise v7.0 to make images from a Mylex board?
>
>
>
> Abviously performance is a major factor to me, but losing data,
> reliability, and compatibility are also major concerns. I use all
> manner of audio software, and like to play a game here and there, and
> want to make sure I'm designing a system that will give me the best of
> all worlds. Money isn't (much) of a concern because I'm a dealer and
> can get the equipment at cost so I'm really interested in the best
> possible solution as long as reliability, performance, and redundancy
> are taken care of.
>
>
>
> I've built hundreds of servers but have never tried to do what I'm now
> thinking about attempting. Anyone running IDE and SCSI RAID in the
> same system? Overall I think I'm most interested in using the 15k
> drives if I can run them in RAID 0 on the same card I'm running RAID 5
> with my 18 gig drives. I'm pretty sure this can be done, but have
> never tried it. Admittedly I'm going to end up buying another 18 gig
> drive soon for storage as I'm already close the the 57 gig or so I'll
> get running the 4 18's in RAID five. If I went that route I may just
> buy the extra drive up front.
>
>
>
> I see pros and cons both ways - introducing a second RAID adapter
> would allow me more flexibility with transfer speeds between the two
> logical drives which would be nice. Overall, what method is going to
> give me the fastest boot time and allow me to utilitze the most tracks
> of samples in my audio work? Anyone want to venture an opinion?
>
>
>
> You guys always seem to like a challange. Here's a good one for you
> because without benchmarks I can't make the decision and aIslo can't
> make on eo ntheory alone. Perhaps you guys can. Let's see one of those
> 80 posts thread with everyone's opinions - any real world experience
> would also be helpful! Anybody that has any advice or can help me out
> I would be most appreciative and be glad to post benchmarks on the
> system once it's built. I cross posted in several places so if you
> could email me and let me know you'e replied I'll be sure to check the
> answer.  Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>
>
> GoldNKid