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Registered: 02/08/2004
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Loc: Helsinki, Finland
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Quote: Currently all four PCI slots are filled, sound card, NIC, TV tuner and firewire card.
That's a problem if you want a hardware RAID solution. It seems that if you want external storage, your best option is an external Firewire or USB drive (although, if the PC is 4 years old, it'll be USB1, so it won't be as quick as USB2).
Quote: Has both a DVD and CD-ROM (can one of these be swapped for an additional HD?)
Yep. As long as they're IDE/ATAPI drives (and they most probably are).
I can get rid of the TV tuner card, my cable company installed a DVR a few weeks ago. Is there a solution where I can install a RAID card to control an external (4 bay?) RAID array? That would be my ideal solution. Or is there a USB/Firewire external drive like the LaCie above that is RAID 1/5, not RAID 0? The Firewire card is actually a firewire/ USB 2.0 card so either connection type is fine. Thanks so much for your help in this!
Peter
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