On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Mark Bishop wrote:
> I have an old P-II 450 that I'd like to upgrade the filesystem on and I am
> thinking a few different approaches. I'd like some opinions to further my
> thinking on the matter.
#1:
> The simplest idea:
> I can get two or three 250G ATA drives to put into the machine and perhaps
> software RAID them, or not.
#2:
> The next idea:
> Get three 250G SATA drives and two (2 channel) PCI SATA controllers. I'm
> still limited by the 133MB/sec PCI bus speed, but when I get around to
> upgrading the motherboard/cpu I won't have to get new drives to increase
> speed.
Assuming you don't have other cards that suck down PCI bandwidth (e.g. SCSI
or video capture), this sounds like a win. (Why three?)
> One question: How big of a pain in the butt is it to boot off drives attached
> to external SATA controllers?
Un-doable, unless your motherboard supports it. However, you may be able to
put the bootloader on your PATA drive, with /boot on your SATA drive. You
can certainly stick /boot and the bootloader on PATA. I don't think you can
boot from software RAID, although IANARAIDGuru.
#3:
> The next next idea:
> Get two 250G SATA drives, one (two channel) SATA controller and get an ATA
> system drive.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
Is #3 just #2 - RAID? Cheaper, certainly. I'd say, if you can afford RAID,
go for it.
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