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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (2723)	10/2/1998 1:29:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Maybe I should go with the smaller Maxtor 2880 @ 5.7gb primary and the Deskstar 8.4 KOT I would consider performance specs for the primary drive and size for the KOT. I am not up on the latest specs. A 7200 RPM 4GB+ primary drive would make sense to me. Naturally if you are into graphics files or storing a lot of data a larger primary drive is a consideration. If I were a serious trader or trading for a living I would dedicate a machine to trading. I have several machines that are dedicated to specific tasks. These machines are the most stable. But somehow having two identical drives, except for size, seems more prudent as far as total system cohesivness goes. I have two pair of matched drives. I wanted matched drives as I want to play with a RAID configuration. The two 2.1 GB SCSI drives may make good candidates for RAID. The 6.4 GB IDE drives are also matched. They may be candidates for IDE RAID. There may be other advantages to matched drives but I do not know what they are. One advantage to mismatched drives is the uniqueness. One can distinguish between drives....less chance of confusion. The KOT concept works with SCSI drives too. One sets A, CDROM, SCSI boot sequence in the mobo bios. The Adaptec AHA 2940 add on host adapters have a boot target ID option (The onboard Adaptec SCSI may not? To my knowledge boot target ID is not part of the SCSI spec). To select a boot drive one hits CTRL A when prompted to do so in the boot process. The SCSI bios screen then appears and you select the ID no of the drive that you want to boot from. A fast 2.1 SCSI primary drive with a slower SCSI 4 GB KOT drive or two is another consideration. SCSI drives are more $ for not much performance increase. I recall Spots mentioning SCSI in NT may not be as straight forward as SCSI in Win 95..something about loading SCSI drivers? I have a new NT machine with a SCSI harddrive that gives me no trouble (yet). All of my machines are all SCSI or IDE and SCSI. I like SCSI because it is easy to add additional harddrives and peripherals. I can move the peripherals from one machine to another with minimal configuration issues. Keep us informed Zeuspaul