Computer Updates
Got my new RAID case in:
It works like a typical internal HD install, but without the cables which was rather nice:
Two 2 TB drives now installed:
Yay, an empty SATA port!
Now to install the SATA interface:
And now to partition the…
What the fuck!?
Let’s back up here for a second…
I ordered this PC a couple of years ago with two of the biggest HDs available at the time. Being that I was running out of space, I decided I HAD to get some more storage space. Note that I had been using the OS as it had been installed without alteration.
Why, oh why, did they only partition under half of my drive space on both of my discs? I had a full 170 GB available on both that I wasn’t putting to use!
Second bit of fun, I quickly learned that the SATA ports on the motherboard apparently don’t support port multipliers, leaving me only able to access one of two of the discs in my case. Luckily however, I had purchased another SATA interface (PCI card) thinking that I wouldn’t have any extra available, and I was able to install and use that one instead.
Nothing is ever as straight-forward as it should be eh?
Hello Scott! Looks like an awesome machine. Btw, belated Happy New Year to you and yours!
Charles Bjørnsen Ravndal -
Thanks! Happy New Years to you guys as well!
OMG dude you are such a dork! lol
Love the blog, keep it up!
Lorne -
Ok Magic boy
I was following along with your post. And then I got to the WTF?! And I was like… YES. WTF? It’s in Japanese! But I guess that wasn’t it.
Haha!
xo
Bunnie -
Haha, yeah — frighteningly enough that is normal for me. Part of the fun of living in Japan of course
What kind of array: 0, 1, 5, ect. Know how it works (sorta), but never used it. Sweet though. Don’t all the drives’ capacities have to match as well? Cool project. Hope you’re good!
Josh -
Yep, they all got to match. I’ve heard it’s even safest to stick with the same brands.
I’m just running them JBOD for now — I still got XP 32 on this PC and I would go over the partition size limit if I were to set up an array (because the drives I got were pretty damn big). I’ll probably set one up if I ever manage to update my OS.