I think not. I think that if ABIT syas this mobo does RIAD, they had better send one that performs as advertised, yes?
ABit sent me the super secret instructions. I have an external drive for backup and bought a copy of Ghost. Well, there goes my weekend!
congrats, i think im gonna raid 2 250gb wd caviar drives on sunday, my hard drive is full... no theres no pron in it
So guess what? If you are changing hard drive technology (ie going from staright SATA to RAID) Norton Ghost is USELESS!!!! You get an "engine cannot start" error because Ghost records the driver type & revision. In fact, it seems (after reading many long & depressing threads on various forums) even if you load Ghost with a different driver revision, you are told to go pound sand.
Isn't that precious?
Any ideas? Anyone ever delt with a thing called "BartPE"?
Isn't that precious?
Any ideas? Anyone ever delt with a thing called "BartPE"?
Push it to the limit! Walk along the razors edge...Y0URDAD wrote:
I have only done this once before...-=|BW|=-Hollow_Moon wrote:
Did you know that two of the new Western Digital 160gb 10,000RPM 16mb cache Sata raptors on Raid O go so fast you can actualy travel back in time
The new PC I just ordered (On another thread on this forum) has two 400GB SATA II 16mb Cache Hard Disks... & the mobo is Raidtasticaly enabled wootety woot The power!
Soon I might be able to actualy load into maps within the same day I connect to a server on BF2
Soon I might be able to actualy load into maps within the same day I connect to a server on BF2
Hello again. IMO, back up what you can and go for the reinstall with Raid 0. I thought that maybe Norton Ghost or similar software wouldn't backup from 1 HD to a Raid array(2 HD's). Sod it. Go for it anyway. Just burn to DVD or CD what you want to save. The increase in performance makes a reinstall really worth while. 1 min, sometimes faster loading time between BF2 maps on my rig. If anyone has RAID on their mobo, use it. A pair of 160GB hitachi deskstars will cost £104. That's £52 each and they are excellent drives, good reviews. This gives a RAID 0 array of just over 300GB and its super fast.Kaosdad008 wrote:
So guess what? If you are changing hard drive technology (ie going from staright SATA to RAID) Norton Ghost is USELESS!!!! You get an "engine cannot start" error because Ghost records the driver type & revision. In fact, it seems (after reading many long & depressing threads on various forums) even if you load Ghost with a different driver revision, you are told to go pound sand.
Isn't that precious?
Any ideas? Anyone ever delt with a thing called "BartPE"?
My system:
Pentium 4 3.4Ghz HT, 2 Gb RAM(PC4300) 4*512MB, Abit Fatality mobo, PCIex 6800GT 256MB overclocked, Audigy 2 ZS sound card and a RAID 0 hard drive array giving 300GB on SATA. I run BF2 with all graphical options set at high plus 4 sample AA. Res 1280*1024. Benq 8ms 19 LCD screen, Logitech 5.1 305w sound system. 3Dmark 2005 benchmark 5546. Could go faster by overclocking the whole system.
Last edited by General_CoLin_Tassi (2006-03-17 07:46:18)
No, I meant the CPU. The post above was for a VapoChill case. I was speaking in reference to that. Could just buy a faster CPU for the price of that case. It might not be as quiet though....cyborg_ninja-117 wrote:
u mean hardrive upgrade...InnerMonkey wrote:
Probably more than a CPU upgrade
i would rather have... the ownership of amd!
Western Digital has free utilities that can be used to duplicate hard drive data in Windows. I don't know about everyone else, but I avoid Norton like the plague.Kaosdad008 wrote:
I'd like to upgrade from my current SATA drive to a Raptor. However, I really do not want to go throught he faffery of reloading the O/S & apps. Does anyone know of a way to reliable do a bit for bit copy of drives. The O/S is windows BTW. It will also likely be a change in drive size.
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-03-18 11:22:18)
Raptors in RAID0 are fast, but you don't actually see much map-loading performance [edit]gain[/edit] from doing so. That setup is more for people wanting very quick file transfer and video compression speeds, who don't want to spend money on the SCSI 15K's.[CANADA]_Zenmaster wrote:
Push it to the limit! Walk along the razors edge...Y0URDAD wrote:
I have only done this once before...-=|BW|=-Hollow_Moon wrote:
Did you know that two of the new Western Digital 160gb 10,000RPM 16mb cache Sata raptors on Raid O go so fast you can actualy travel back in time
You're much better off with one Raptor for your apps (150GB if you can manage, as it has 16MB cache rather than the 36 and 74 GB's 8MB), and then a nice WD SE16 500GB with 16MB cache.
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-03-18 11:32:36)
Gen_CoLin_Tassi - Yes, I am afraid you are right. I'm just going to have to set aside a weekend and bit the bullett (so I can bit more bulletts faster in the game?)
unnamednewbie13 - as I was going through my CD binder I came across that WD CD. Forgot all about it! BTW - damned nice sig! must have taken hours!
unnamednewbie13 - as I was going through my CD binder I came across that WD CD. Forgot all about it! BTW - damned nice sig! must have taken hours!
Yeah, I use that utility to duplicate XP installations to other hard drives, which is alot faster than installing fresh from CD.Kaosdad008 wrote:
unnamednewbie13 - as I was going through my CD binder I came across that WD CD. Forgot all about it! BTW - damned nice sig! must have taken hours!
Thanks, but it was only a few minutes. I really just copy/pasted images from BF2S, plus a cropped screenshot for the (now outdated) unlocks, and grabbed a JSF off the net. Collapsed the ribbons into one layer and added a pillow emboss.
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-03-18 13:32:37)
Perhaps a number of you already know this, but I found out something quite by accident.
The SATA RAID controllers come with drivers (DUH) but also should come with a Windows based utility set. This makes upgrading from a single drive to SATA RAID really easy:
- Purchase second drive. It has to be the same size or larger as the existing drive.
- Install the drive as normal & boot system
****** NOTE *******
Many mobos have two SATA RAID controllers built in, make certain you plug intot he correct SATA ports & have the correct driver diskette.
*******************
- Install the RAID Drivers & utilities per instructions
- Fire up the RAID utility
At this point the utility should see the new drive and you can add it to the RAID set. You usually have to walk away for a while as the RAID builds the set.
This may all be painfully obvious to you all, but maybe I've saved someone out there the pain I went trhough.
The SATA RAID controllers come with drivers (DUH) but also should come with a Windows based utility set. This makes upgrading from a single drive to SATA RAID really easy:
- Purchase second drive. It has to be the same size or larger as the existing drive.
- Install the drive as normal & boot system
****** NOTE *******
Many mobos have two SATA RAID controllers built in, make certain you plug intot he correct SATA ports & have the correct driver diskette.
*******************
- Install the RAID Drivers & utilities per instructions
- Fire up the RAID utility
At this point the utility should see the new drive and you can add it to the RAID set. You usually have to walk away for a while as the RAID builds the set.
This may all be painfully obvious to you all, but maybe I've saved someone out there the pain I went trhough.