What I did tonight

Ok so Best Buy got the 1TB drives down to my price, and I jumped. I can only eat one can of tuna and a peanut jelly sandwich a day for the next week, and I have to put my car in neutral and coast down hills with the engine off, but I am now building my RAID.


Picture1: The drive bay that converts the 2 x 5 1/4 slots into the 3 SATA trays. That's been installed for a while, but only had the 2 older 1TB drives in it. Now its full, woot!


Picture2: (Cringe) Yeah I need to route the wiring properly still but that's what crammed in it right now. 3 more drives than the ones in the bay. Also the video card, and everything else.


Picture3: That's a close-up of the RAID card. If you look at this one and the one before I actually do have a tiny touch of organization. The blue cables are the RAID controlled drives.


Picture4: Setup was a LOT easier that I thought. I was able to put the two new drives into their own RAID 0 drive array, move one of my older TB drive's data over to the RAID 0 array, blank the one I empied, and I'm now....


Picture5: Converting the Raid0 (2drives) to Raid5 (3drives with redundancy).

to come tomorrow evening,... move the final older TB drive's data to the new array once its finished building, blank it and expand the current 2TB array into a 3TB array. Which will be raid 5 and any one drive failure won't lose any data.