Talon’s (Micah) Blog

My file server (p4 2.4ghz, 512ram, 5 yr old emachine system) finally bit the dust this week.  The mobo/bios quit.  I dont get anything on the screen or any beep codes when I pull memory out.

So I ordered a cheap AM2 mobo with a 4000+ x2 and I’ll take the extra 2 gigs of ram out of my comp and pop it in the new file server, along with a thermaltake 430w PSU.   I’ll finally get a chance to upgrade the hdds from 3×250s, 2×160s to 3×500s, 2×250s when I get the parts.  I had to also buy some 36 inch IDE cables to get the drives to reach my RAID card in my 4u case.

So i’ll soon have

2×500 in RAID1 (for my TV server)

1×500 no RAID (for my movies)

2×250 (including OS) RAID1 (for my backups)

That makes a total of  675GBs of usable RAID1 space and an additional 465GBs of non-RAID for movies for a grand total of 1.14TBs