Intel D945GCLF mini-ITX Atom 1.6Ghz (working)

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Intel D945GCLF mini-ITX Atom 1.6Ghz  board

no-brand Pci soft raid card.

2 Spinpoint 1TB drives

1 WD green 1TB drive

Very cheap ATX case (loud, does have 1 sata connector)

Surplus scythe fan

Sandisk u3 cruzer 1GB

 

Now works completely. All disks have been added and parity has been established and checked.

 

Tips:

 

-In the bios I had to set the 'usb mass storage emulation type' to 'all fixed disk'.

-Copy speed is 11mb/sec- In hindsight I should have connected data disks to mobo sata ports and used a gigabit pci card to transfer files, then switched one of the drives to pci sata card when adding the parity drive.

-Parity calculation took 5 hours.