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  • #1

    RAID Advice Please

    Getting real close to ordering a KT7A RAID board to replace my aging three week old KT7.

    Plan on getting two 30GB IBM 75GXP's and transfer the rest of my stuff into it. SCSI hard drives will go but the SCSI CD ROM drives will stay.

    Any special prep of hard drives needed, or just format with FAT 32 and load an operating system and go?



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    ABIT KT7 non-RAID * 900MHz Athlon T'bird * 256MB Crucial 7E PC/133 RAM * Two Cheetah LVD's * Barracuda UW * DiamondMAX IDE * Plextor Ultraplex 40max/Plexwriter 12/4/32 * Hitachi IDE DVD * 2940U2W * SB Live * 3Com 905B-TX NIC * 3Com Courier V. Ext. * Hollywood + * Win 98SE, Win 2000 *
    MSI K7D Master L, Water Cooled, All SCSI
    Modded XP2000's @ 1800 (12.5 x 144 FSB)
    512MB regular Crucial PC2100
    Matrox P
    X15 36-LP Cheetahs In RAID 0
    LianLiPC70
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  • #2
    There aren't much to do with IDE RAID. Just make sure you install the latest necessary drivers. Make each hd master on each RAID channel and select bigger block size if you intend to edit video or large files. I've heard KT7 RAID does not play nice with SCSI devices so its better to leave the SCSI HDs off.

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    • #3
      Does KT7 use HPT or Promise?

      Either way, mail me and I'll get you some links on modifying it (no soldering required, just shove a resistor into two otherwise unused holes on your IDE cable) to be full RAID.

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      • #4
        KT7/KT7A uses HPT 370.

        Full RAID would be all level choices, not just level 0, 1, 0 + 1 and JBOD.

        [This message has been edited by SCompRacer (edited 15 January 2001).]
        MSI K7D Master L, Water Cooled, All SCSI
        Modded XP2000's @ 1800 (12.5 x 144 FSB)
        512MB regular Crucial PC2100
        Matrox P
        X15 36-LP Cheetahs In RAID 0
        LianLiPC70

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        • #5
          The plain kt7 doesn't have the highpoint controller.. You only have the kt133 ide66 controller. The kt133a however does have ide100 built in and if you get the kt7a-RAID you also get the highpoint controller so you can have 8 ide100 devices.
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          • #6
            Ya, didn't put RAID next to description.
            MSI K7D Master L, Water Cooled, All SCSI
            Modded XP2000's @ 1800 (12.5 x 144 FSB)
            512MB regular Crucial PC2100
            Matrox P
            X15 36-LP Cheetahs In RAID 0
            LianLiPC70

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            • #7
              SComp,
              The 30GB drives are $150 at buy.com, and the 45GB are only $172.


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              Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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              • #8
                Oh No! Already ordered Wombat...$149 each, got two 30GB IBM 75GXP. Seem to be real popular. Thanks for the info though.

                I could have gotten them for less, but, "yes, we have them...they are in stock.. but they won't ship till the end of month."

                MSI K7D Master L, Water Cooled, All SCSI
                Modded XP2000's @ 1800 (12.5 x 144 FSB)
                512MB regular Crucial PC2100
                Matrox P
                X15 36-LP Cheetahs In RAID 0
                LianLiPC70

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                • #9
                  Good buy, those IBM HDs are fast, reliable and not as noisy as many other HDs.

                  I have two of those 30GB DTLA 307030 drives as well (and the guy at the shop where I bought them told me I'm the third person that day to take two of them at once - as this is a quiet small shop these drives seem to be in fact really popular right now).

                  If you're interested in what performance you could expect with those in a RAID-array take a look at the benchmarks forum: there is a HDTach-score of my RAID 0 array on the KT7's HighPoint HPT370.
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                  • #10
                    Full Raid?
                    Wazzat?
                    chuck


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