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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:30:18 GMT, Dice <dice@wilddice.org> wrote:

>Helper Monkey Assault Squad 7 wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, are you planning on using software or hardware
>> raid 5? I keep hoping the pricing on decent raid 5 sata cards will
>> drop, but it's yet to happen. In the meantime, I've got several
>> terabytes of music & video languishing on optical media.
>
>Given the extremely low overhead of software raid (even under Windows), 
>why wait?

A couple reasons: I'm running XP Pro vs Server 2003. I could install
2003, but I like playing games, don't feel like having to boot into
server to listen to music, and have no real desire to buy additional
hardware at this point--a laptop and a fast desktop are enough. 

My motherboard only supports two sata drives (ASUS P4P800 Del), and
I'd rather not have to blow $40 a drive on adaptors.  I could switch
out the motherboard, but then I'd likely want to go for a board with
PCI-express, thus making making 2.4 ghz CPU (currently running at 3.6
ghz) and $500 worth of dual channel memory worthless.

Other than that, it would work great. :)

So currently it's a waiting game as to what keeps cheap first: sata
raid cards, wireless nas boxes, or a replacement desktop (then I'll
use this as a full-time server).