Well, now that I know my main PC requires a new hard drive, I went ahead and did a bit of shopping on Newegg and at Fry’s for new hard drives. Unfortunately, for what Fry’s wanted for a 200 GB Serial ATA drive, I could have gotten a 320 GB one from Newegg. So, I ended up ordering two 320 GB Serial ATA drives from Newegg this evening. My new motherboard has a RAID 0/1/0+1 controller on it, so what I’ll end up doing is putting the two drives into a RAID 0 configuration, making them into a single 640 GB megadrive. :-)
Before you ask… no, I don’t need redundancy. All of the critical data is either on my server which is backed up nightly, or on another machine (as is the case with my music collection). So, losing the array won’t bother me too much. Besides, with improved performance with the two drives working in tandem… it should be win-win for me.
The only downside is that I don’t believe the drives will get here before Friday, so I’ll be stuck on the Powerbook until then, and likely through the weekend as well. I really do with Apple had made official docking stations for the Powerbook line, but for now I can make do with this.
I also picked up two games while at Fry’s: Quake 4 and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. Of course, with no hard drives I can’t install them yet, but I wanted to take advantage of Quake 4 being $15 off today. Oh, well…
In any event, I should be heading to bed. More later…