Ok I'm in need of a little advice. I just got a little system off a friend that he was throwing out to use as a linux experiment box/case modding experiment. I was thinking about turning it into a little media/file server and was wanting some advice on it. It's an 1700xp system, nforce2, onboard gfx etc. I'm going to use the 80gig hard drive I got with it as a boot drive. There are a few options I was thinking about:
1. Buy a cheap sata raid card (primarily because I prefer sata drives to e-ide, and they're cheaper) then later on get a few drives for it. I was looking at the awful, cheap ones on ebay, not sure if they'd just cause problems? Also looking at the revo64 by xfx, gets decent reviews and is cheap.
2. Buy an internal hotswap caddy for the 5.25 bays, not sure how this connects the the mobo, would I then need a sata interface card anyway?
3. Any other ideas? The mobo has 3 or 4 pci slots, a couple of eide slots, agp slot. Not much else.
1. Buy a cheap sata raid card (primarily because I prefer sata drives to e-ide, and they're cheaper) then later on get a few drives for it. I was looking at the awful, cheap ones on ebay, not sure if they'd just cause problems? Also looking at the revo64 by xfx, gets decent reviews and is cheap.
2. Buy an internal hotswap caddy for the 5.25 bays, not sure how this connects the the mobo, would I then need a sata interface card anyway?
3. Any other ideas? The mobo has 3 or 4 pci slots, a couple of eide slots, agp slot. Not much else.