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ripken204

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  1. Its a "best practice" to have OS on a separate physical disk, and data on (an)other(s). Even better practice is separate physical drives on different controllers. Example, our Domain Controller has 2 drives on RAID1 on onboard controller for OS, and 8 drives on RAID10 on 3Ware card for data.

    for my server i have OS on just a single drive on onboard

    then 8 drives on 3ware raid card in raid6.

    it works well i think :)

  2. I'd use Partiton Magic to make that 100Gig partition on the 2nd drive then use any imaging tool to (ghost...) copy the 50 on the 100. Then swap the drives boot order. Then reuse PM to reclaim the 50 on the 1st drive.

    I've been very impressed by PM8 that I used lately at work. It is 10 TIMES faster than GPartEd, I kid you not. Plus, it makes most operation from within the running OS, no reboot, no media needed. Only advantage of GPartEd is that it is free.

    Well I had a friend tell me that you shouldn't even partition your hard drives. Because it can make them more prone to failure.
    If he can't explain why, sorry but I take that as a pointless statement.

    ya gparted will take an extremely long time when trying to perform actions on the first partition on a very full drive, it's ridiculous at times.

  3. near the center of the disk? you want it near the edge of the disk (the first partition).

    there are definitely risks such as if you lose power during the operation, the drive could fail under the heavy load it may be under.

    this process may also take a very long time.

    i would highly suggest just getting another smaller hdd purely for the OS and leaving your 1.5TBs to be purely storage drives.

    when you have this much data your #1 concern should be the safety of those files.

    so i wouldn't risk the integrity of those files by messing around with an OS on the same disk.

  4. upgrade video card, yes.

    upgrade to SSD, if you want, i think it's a waste of money right now.

    no need to upgrade ram or motherboard, and why a new case?

    before you said next july, is that still what you are thinking?

    you make it sounds like you want to upgrade now..

  5. wow, if you're not planning on buying till july then don't bother looking now.

    it will just be speculation.

    i suggest getting a 5870 or one of the next gen cards as an upgrade for this year if you game alot.

    otherwise you are set, your cpu is still a great one.

  6. first of all thank you for reply..

    I don't have any software with woofer what you mention above.. and about the woofer no i don't think he has better woofer.. both the speakers are made in china.. and he pays Rs.2500 for 2.1 channel (Seapeano) woofer where i payed Rs.3600 for 5.1 channel (Jumboy) speaker.

    i said sound card, not woofer.

  7. From your post, you have already identified a ram problem and it is highly unlikely that you are overloading the power supply (each module only uses a few watts)

    Get the free version of http://www.memtest86.com (get the ISO and burn it to a CD) Then, simply boot it and let it run for a few hours. If the bottom stays empty, your ram is good, if it gets any errors, it isn't.

    memtest will only be helpful when testing each stick of ram on its own. as you said its probably a ram problem so now identifying which stick is bad is the next step.

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