Well yesterday I happened to have bought a 300 GB Seagate SATA HDD from a friend of mine since he needs money. Got around to installing it and I now have finally replaced 1 of 3 IDE drives. My plan for my computer is to replace all my IDE HDDs with SATA drives. Now I only 2 left to go! But also because of this means that I could set up my two 200 GB SATA drives and start running RAID 0. Now I know this is a bit risky but I’m willing to take the chance. Maybe later I might get another drive and change it to RAID 5, who knows.
But of course, after setting everything back up and reinstalling Windows, my second LCD monitor decides to die on me. I was messing around with the dualview settings and since this monitor is running analog, it flickers now and then depending on what I am doing. After much flickering the power to the monitor just went dead. So now I get a slight squealing sound from the monitor’s power block. Well it’s a good thing it’s only the power block. But this monitor is damn old and finding a replacement won’t be easy. Well I have another friend who may be able to help me out on this as I am not really upto buying a second monitor. Though I wouldn’t mind having a new one but not right now.
raid 0 => raid 5 migration
afaik, needs a hardware controller to do it inplace =/
Or can do software raid 5. Dunno if its possible in windows, but is in linux. Have to take in mind if your hardware raid card fails, then it’ll be very difficult to recover your data unless have equivalent hardware card. Software RAID is easier to recover since platform independent.
Suggest using RAID 1 or RAID1E if you can.