I finally received my tax return and thought I'd do a little shopping.
Unfortunately I made a mistake in my order but it shouldn't be too big of a deal getting it fixed.
My current setup is a Dell 600SC with 5 120G hard drives running software RAID 5. This thing is slow. So very, very slow. On top of that, because I did it on the cheap I'm stuck with the capacity I have which, of course, is not nearly enough.
So after planning and waffling I finally bit the bullet and ordered some new hardware.
I ordered a CODEGEN CAT-9011-C10, a 4 Bay Hot-Swapable SATA HDD Enclosure, various cables and connectors, and where I made my mistake, a HighPoint RocketRAID 1820A.
What's wrong with the RAID card you might ask? The 1820A doesn't support OCE. The 2220 does. I looked right at it and proceeded to order the wrong one. Talk about a "durr" moment.
At any rate, my plan (at least before buying a non-OCE supporting card) was to copy the 30 or so gigs of data I don't have backups for (not movies, just misc. stuff) onto another drive and kill the software RAID. Move everything over to the new case, and recreate the array using the RocketRaid card with the old 120G drives. Buy 3 400G drives as my wallet allowed, create a new array with those, copy everything over from the old 120 array and then expand the new array as needed.
I think you can see the flaw in my plan. No OCE = No new array.
Oh well, I may end up paying a "stupid" tax for not paying attention to what I bought but NewEgg has always treated me well in the past and it'd serve me right.
Unfortunately I made a mistake in my order but it shouldn't be too big of a deal getting it fixed.
My current setup is a Dell 600SC with 5 120G hard drives running software RAID 5. This thing is slow. So very, very slow. On top of that, because I did it on the cheap I'm stuck with the capacity I have which, of course, is not nearly enough.
So after planning and waffling I finally bit the bullet and ordered some new hardware.
I ordered a CODEGEN CAT-9011-C10, a 4 Bay Hot-Swapable SATA HDD Enclosure, various cables and connectors, and where I made my mistake, a HighPoint RocketRAID 1820A.
What's wrong with the RAID card you might ask? The 1820A doesn't support OCE. The 2220 does. I looked right at it and proceeded to order the wrong one. Talk about a "durr" moment.
At any rate, my plan (at least before buying a non-OCE supporting card) was to copy the 30 or so gigs of data I don't have backups for (not movies, just misc. stuff) onto another drive and kill the software RAID. Move everything over to the new case, and recreate the array using the RocketRaid card with the old 120G drives. Buy 3 400G drives as my wallet allowed, create a new array with those, copy everything over from the old 120 array and then expand the new array as needed.
I think you can see the flaw in my plan. No OCE = No new array.
Oh well, I may end up paying a "stupid" tax for not paying attention to what I bought but NewEgg has always treated me well in the past and it'd serve me right.