RAID 5
I finally finished ordering all the photos for Cal Ripken Baseball Saturday. They should be here soon. Once they arrive we will sort through them and put them together according to who ordered what and put them into envelopes. We plan on delivering them on the day of the awards ceremony for the program. We will be having a booth setup with all the envelopes and photos and we will also have some other items to display.
Now that the photos are done we still have a couple of projects planned. I got to join the Firebaugh Police Department Saturday for a barbeque and watching them qualify on the pistol range. It was interesting and I plan on posting some of the photos on here tomorrow. We also have a wedding planned for later on in May which is going to be great and I cant wait to see the happy couple at the altar.
Now that all the photos are backed up I am now ready to make use of those 4 Seagate 1.5TB drives to configure them as a RAID 5. The problem was that the motherboard I bought didn’t support a RAID 5 and Vista doesn’t support a RAID 5 without a separate controller so I went out and bought one. It cost me about $112 on eBay but its worth it if you plan on having a lot of storage and redundancy. The whole purpose of the RAID 5 is to have three or more hard drives act as one big drive giving you speed and redundancy. If one drive fails then you quickly swap that drive out with another and it rebuilds itself keeping your data safe and secure. I started the RAID 5 initialization on Sunday and it said it was going to take about 33 hours to initialize all the drives and give me a total of 4.5TB. Now, my C drive or my OS drive is on a Seagate 1.0TB drive which I plan on using the RAID for keeping backups of the C drive along with my photos and downloads.
That’s all for today. Thanks for reading.
Manuel Perez
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