Ok, I'm sure someone here can get me on track on what I need to do to prevent this catastrophic failure from happening again so i'm welcome to any and all opinions. Just not the negative ones.
What I have now:
XFX 680I LT SLI socket 775 Motherboard
Intel Quadcore Kentsfield 2.4Ghz Q6600 CPU
2 Corsair TWINX 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz E.P.P.
4 500GB WD Caviar Blue Se 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 GB's/Sec16 MB cache HDD's - 1 with OS on it just died
2 ZOTAC GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Cards
1 x Hauppauge Dual TV Recorder Tuner Card with Media Center Remote Control WinTV-PVR-500MCE 253 PCI Interface
1 x LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model LH-20A1L-06 LightScribe Support
1 x SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B - OEM
1 x Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005 SP2B for System Builders - OEM
Ultra Aluminus Black Mid Tower with 700w XVS PSU
1 x ZALMAN MFC2 Muti Fan Controller with Zalman CPU Fan With 70mm Fan & 2 120MM Case Fans.
Ok, so here's the scoop. Recently my main hard drive with my OS on it failed. Not sure why as I have never had a WD HDD fail on me before but it's got the click-click-click of death right now. Haven't backed up since June. AAARRRGGGHHHH!
The MOBO above does have a RAID controller on it but I have heard on-board RAID controllers are very unreliable so I never set it up.
I am trying to prevent data loss again and don't want any more down time so here's what I was thinking about to re-build my system.
Scenario 1: RAID1 Config on MOBO controller with 2x 2TB HDD's and a program to do automatic backups for me.
Scenario 2: RAID1 Config on seperate card with 2x 2TB HDD's and a program to do automatic backups for me.
I don't have a tone of money to spend here but I can tackle what I need to if it's worth the $.
If I should go with the seperate RAID card, what's the one I should get.
I also want to know what is the best backup software for everything. I want it to backup for me automatically and I don't ever want to go through re-installing everything again.
I was also wondering if this could be a heat issue. Should I upgrade my system to a liquid cooling system with the fans still in place? If so what cooing system would be recommended? I would want it to cool at least my PSU and HDD's.
While I know this is a lot to ask but I trust no other site to ask questions on as I have gotten the best help from here in the past so please respond as soon as possible.
What I have now:
XFX 680I LT SLI socket 775 Motherboard
Intel Quadcore Kentsfield 2.4Ghz Q6600 CPU
2 Corsair TWINX 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz E.P.P.
4 500GB WD Caviar Blue Se 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 GB's/Sec16 MB cache HDD's - 1 with OS on it just died
2 ZOTAC GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Cards
1 x Hauppauge Dual TV Recorder Tuner Card with Media Center Remote Control WinTV-PVR-500MCE 253 PCI Interface
1 x LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model LH-20A1L-06 LightScribe Support
1 x SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B - OEM
1 x Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005 SP2B for System Builders - OEM
Ultra Aluminus Black Mid Tower with 700w XVS PSU
1 x ZALMAN MFC2 Muti Fan Controller with Zalman CPU Fan With 70mm Fan & 2 120MM Case Fans.
Ok, so here's the scoop. Recently my main hard drive with my OS on it failed. Not sure why as I have never had a WD HDD fail on me before but it's got the click-click-click of death right now. Haven't backed up since June. AAARRRGGGHHHH!
The MOBO above does have a RAID controller on it but I have heard on-board RAID controllers are very unreliable so I never set it up.
I am trying to prevent data loss again and don't want any more down time so here's what I was thinking about to re-build my system.
Scenario 1: RAID1 Config on MOBO controller with 2x 2TB HDD's and a program to do automatic backups for me.
Scenario 2: RAID1 Config on seperate card with 2x 2TB HDD's and a program to do automatic backups for me.
I don't have a tone of money to spend here but I can tackle what I need to if it's worth the $.
If I should go with the seperate RAID card, what's the one I should get.
I also want to know what is the best backup software for everything. I want it to backup for me automatically and I don't ever want to go through re-installing everything again.
I was also wondering if this could be a heat issue. Should I upgrade my system to a liquid cooling system with the fans still in place? If so what cooing system would be recommended? I would want it to cool at least my PSU and HDD's.
While I know this is a lot to ask but I trust no other site to ask questions on as I have gotten the best help from here in the past so please respond as soon as possible.