Memoirs of a Computer Build - Part Deux

Published by Nick Ladd | Filed under Computer Workstation

Warning: I’m a computer nerd and thus sometimes write posts that may only appeal to my comrades in nerdism. If this is not you, please ignore this post.

Monday night I was finally able to get all of the RAID arrays built and formated and Windows XP installed. It turns out that the software for the NVidia RAID controller that was built in to my motherboard included on the motherboard’s driver CD wasn’t the latest and greatest. I ended up simply formating the partitions from Windows Recovery (similar to DOS) and then installing the new RAID software after booting back into Windows. It has worked so far (fingers crossed).

I ended up with three partitions:

C: System - 120 GB
D: Data - 500 GB
E: Data Secondary - 330+ GB

The idea being that I’ll store all of my data (pictures, movies, documents, etc.) on the D:. I limited it to 500 GB so that I can get a cheap external hard drive to do weekly backups to. If I ever exceed 500 GB worth of data (unlikely at this point), I will start using the E: and figure out a different means of backup.