Norton Ghost Ive used a lot, and works fine for doing just what its name says. (However Ive had recent problems with copying a ghost img over a network as its being created, some help with that would be nice
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If your going to buy 4 80gig drives, do RAID 5, not RAID 0+1, you would get space of 3 drives rather than just 2. though might lose *some* speed, but otherwise your already doing RAID 1 so the difference is irrelevant.
240gigs a week? hmm I only do about 10-20gigs a day. and no its not all warez. and yes I use almost all of it. and of course would be more if I had more bandwidth to play with
I reformat whenever I start having problems, sometimes thats like once every few weeks(if I break something
) or only a few times a year. Again, if anyone knows how to get Norton Ghost to copy its ghost image across the network while creating it, PLEASE TELL ME!! heh)
From reading another thread I think the statement bout "8mb cache does nothing in RAID 0" I beleive it means. having 2 8MB drives in RAID does not give you more speed (per say) as just one 8MB cache drive. But the 8mb drives (atleast from WD, and I think seagate) have 3year warranty, not 1.
and my official opinion is.. I hate RAID 0 and wont use it because its gain is not worth it if you have fast enough drives to begin with. plain ol' single partition, big, fast drives. is all ya need, heh. And besides, if you want your "system" partition (ie, not data storage etc) drive to be fast, just buy a fast scsi, which are still faster than any ATA or SATA setup to date. Wont get as much space for your buck but we are talking about speed here right?
anyways thats my 2 cents..or 3 cents, whatever
