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I could go with 2 mirrored pairs but it would be a waste as i normally ghost my OS to a DVD every so often, so there wouldnt be a need for the mirrored pair for the OS.

 

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Furry muff, RAID1 is probably overkill then.

I'd have a mirrored pair plus one other drive for application data - mebbes keep the OS disk really small so that you can image it off quicker or to a smaller optical drive? Even stick Windows on one and a Linux distro on the other, or just use it for regularly accessed data, like music you listen to regularly or films you often watch

 

Ni-i-i-ice build, Raffaz... can't fault you on a single component selection.

 

I thinking along the same lines Raffaz - with 2 of us now using this little network here, data seems to be left everywhere with no real backup. I was thinking a simple setup for a working PC and the 2 laptops but using NAS storage, probably mirrored RAID1, for storage - did consider the SCSI side of things to make it a little faster but decided the extra cost wasn't worth it - I think a NAS storage and a couple of 500gb SATA drives were going to cost me around £300.

Something like:
D-Link DNS-323 SATA Network Storage Enclosure £165
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache £72 each
Total: £309 - complete backup solution (well for me anyway )

 

I was thinking the same thing. Ive already got a couple 500gb samsung drives, im probably gonna need a few more at least.

 

You'd be suprised Harry. Many consumer boards offer a decent range of Raid levels now. Ok so the cheap ones don't, but once you spend more than about 70 quid you can easily get it.

I did a system for a customer earlier in the year and it had two separate raid controllers on board, with 2 & 4 sata ports respectively. It wasn't a hugely expensive board either. Gigabyte P35C-DS3R. I was very impressed with it.

 

you can have RAID 10 and RAID 1+0 and the difference is the way it backs up the data. i can't remember which way round it goes but one saves 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 and the other does 1-4, 5-8 which means the first gets up to 4 drive failures and the other only gets up to 2. RAID 5 spreads all the disk data over all the drives so if one fails it can rebuild from backups saved from the other disks.

grim

 

If you read further down the thread you'll see that I discovered this!

Harry.

 

Got my new parts today, will build it on Sunday when im off work

 

ohhh, drool drool! Have fun Raff!

 

Cool.

I have one of those 8600GT cards mine is the MSI version with passive cooling, that doesn't work like it should. I had to get extra fans to keep it cool.

Yours will be okay as it has its own fan, they are are decent price for a DX10 compatible card

I am also looking at building a system next year and have been cotemplating the Antec P180b or the P900 case

 

I think the P182 case that ive got is the newer version of the P180. Might be wrong tho

 

yep your right the P180 is the older one, I actaully meant to say 182b which is the same as yours

 

Theres a really nice mirrored one if you fancy it. Take a look, its really smart.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-069-AN&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=160

 

I have the P180B. You'll be happy with either ther 180 or 182, I promise you.

 

Looks quite cool, not sure how that mirror effect would help cooling though, which is what I will be after.

I have seen a lot of Antec cases in action latley and they seem like very good cases, so when it come to the time I buy the compnents its definetly gonna be Antec for me