New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware)

[Bryan Cassidy]

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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 at des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) wrote:

> Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy at bellsouth.net> writes:
> > Hard drive:
> > SEAGATE SCSI 36.0GB 10000RPM, MODEL# ST336607LW -X10
> 
> 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)
> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
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