Which way would be the best way?

gtghmgtghm New
edited September 2003 in Hardware
I am making some changes to my system.

I have a WD JB 250gb drive that I am going to use as a C drive and back up for my 200gb Raid 0 array.

The raid card is the 3 ware 7500 (4) port raid card.

The choices are either I install it on one of the 2 remaining free ports and boot off the 3ware card and basically run off the 3ware card for everything.

Or

I install the drive on an IDE.

I currently have an 80gb drive that I am useing for my C drive installed in an IDE.

You should know, if you don't, that the board I am running is a Supermicro dual Xeon board. The 3ware card is in a 66/64 slot.

I assume that If I install it on the 3ware card running in a 66/64 slot I should have an advantage because the 66/64 bus is not on the same buss as the 33mhz/PCI bus thus I should see a bit of a performace boost... yes?

Thanks,
"g"

Comments

  • citrixmetacitrixmeta Montreal, Quebec Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    here is the setup on my fileserver.

    single scsi drive for OS (this could be an ide drive too)
    and a raid0 with 4 x 120gig using a 3ware escalade 7***, and running at 64/33,

    here is a pic

    hope this helps.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    If you have a free regular IDE go with that or you can use one of the free channels on the 3ware if you can select the spare drive as your boot drive.
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