My system I built just in October bit the dust!! I cannot remember any of my dozens of systems I have built for myself or the 100’s I have built for others ever doing like this!! I knew an older hard drive I was using as a boot drive needed changing but a SCSI drive you can ride for a while since it will move the data off bad sectors.
What happened was the last week the system kept cutting off for no apparent reason. There were no error messages in the event logs besides some data referring to the video card. So in the middle of updating the video drivers the system bites it for good.
Well now I' going for a screaming no holds bar system!! I already have the Adaptec 39160 and a Seagate SCSI 73GB 10k rpm hard drive for a boot drive. I will add a 146 GB 10k rpm SCSI HD.
This will go along with maybe another 36 GB and 50 GB SCSI hard drives already on the system and replace 2 other 36 GB drives and my 47 GB drive on that system.
I am going to go with a 64 bit CPU on this build. When I get my warranty replacement parts for what went out on the system I will use that to build and replace one of my Linux systems or it may become a windows backup music server or test windows system.
The data is good and in shape so no issues there. Now with the beauty of SCSI I can have all 8 drives connected while I transfer data. I need to reduce the number of spindles on this system any way. I was just hoping to save this task for later and also benefit from the new CPU’s coming out in a few months time.
Oh well another thing to accomplish in the long list that will push a few projects out a bit.
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