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+See also [[New PC]].
+== Storage ==
+=== Current ===
+====Drives====
+<table>
+<tr><td>sda</td><td>300 GB Maxtor 6V300F0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdc</td><td>1000 GB Seagate</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdb</td><td>500 GB WDC WD5000KS-00MNB0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sde</td><td>500 GB Maxtor 7H500F0 external</td></tr>
+</table>
+==== Partitions ====
+<table>
+<tr><td>sda1</td><td>250G</td><td>raid5 md0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sda2</td><td>40G </td><td>VMs</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sda3</td><td>210G </td><td>unused</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdb1</td><td>250G</td><td>raid5 md0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdb2</td><td>20G </td><td>'''boot/root'''</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdb3</td><td>30G </td><td>unused</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdc1</td><td>250G</td><td>raid5 md0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdc2</td><td>50G</td><td>unused</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdc3</td><td>700G</td><td>unused</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sde1</td><td>500G</td><td>backup</td></tr>
+</table>
+=== New ===
+====Drives====
+<table>
+<tr><td>sda</td><td>500 GB WDC WD5000KS-00MNB0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdb</td><td>300 GB Maxtor 6V300F0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdc</td><td>500 GB Maxtor 7H500F0 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdd</td><td>1000 GB Seagate external</td></tr>
+</table>
+==== Partitions ====
+<table>
+<tr><td>sda1</td><td>300GB</td><td>md0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sda2</td><td>200GB </td><td>boot/root</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdb1</td><td>300GB</td><td>md0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdc1</td><td>300GB</td><td>md0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sdc2</td><td>200GB</td><td>swap/spare</td></tr>
+<tr><td>sde1</td><td>1TB</td><td>backup/working</td></tr>
+</table>
+=== Steps to configure Linux system with RAID drive ===
+# repartition 500GB_max to 300GB+200GB
+# backup critical files to 200GB
+# break 1T's 250MB volume out of md0
+# partition 1TB to 600+400gb
+# copy md0's data to 1TB
+# make 1TB external, 500MB_max internal
+# reinstall OS
+# repartition md0
+# copy files back
+== Comments on RAID ==
+Using RAID 5 is more complex, but when a drive fails (as did the ST31000340AS) under warranty, sending it back has no data security risk.
+=== External ===
+* Maxtor 200 GB - media
+* Maxtor 500 GB - backups
+GB free (June 24/2008). est. 100 GB RAID can be cleared up, 200GB moved external.
+NCQ performance on Seagate 7200.11 - http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=26006
+The problem with the above config is the array is spread across all working drives, so there can't be fast directory to directory copies. Solution is to move to something like this:
++ 500 raid1
+gb boot + working/media
+external 1tb 500gb backup + 500gb working/media
+== Video ==
+<s>NVidia En7300GT silent</s> - died
+see system board
+== System board ==
+[http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2946&ost=others#anchor_os Gigabyte e7-aum-ds2h] (NVIDIA GeForce 9400 chipset)
+== Etc ==
+* Antec nsk2400
+* Asus P5B-VM
+* Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
+* 4 X 1 GB ?? DDR-2 RAM
+== Linux Multimedia ==
+=== Audio ===
+http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/DigitalOut
+[[Audio]]
+Need 7.1 digital (optical) audio pass-through capability
+  wii    dvd    etc
+   |      |      |
+ [    52xv540u tv   ]
+          |
+          |  toslink w/ dolby digital 7.1
+          |
+    [ computer ]
+          |
+          | toslink w/ dolby digital 7.1
+          |
+        [amp]
+          |
+       speakers
+http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dolby_Digital_and_DTS
+http://alsa.opensrc.org/DigitalOut