One of the relatives of Sewell Dunton contacted me several years back and I think they were living in San Diego... but my desktop hard disk crashed and I've not been able to recover the old emails from them so I have no way to get back in touch with them.

I bought all the components over a year ago to build a new desktop machine and then I'd pull off the data from that old drive. But I'd been plagued with problems trying to get the machine running as I couldn't get enough power for my seven hard drives... 500watts no good. I shelved the project for over a year but I bought an 850 watt power supply and I pre-ordered Windows 7 so when I get the new OS, I'll work on it again.

PS: You're wondering why SEVEN drives... I bought 5 drives 300gb each for a Raid 5 array and then one drive for the operating system/cache and then a pull out mobile drive bay for off site backup security. This was before the 1tb and 1.5tb drives of today... I don't want to trash the 300gb drives as I bought 2 spares for the array so this system should be good for a few years. Although I will probably upgrade the processor to a quad core as I bought the components when the new dual cores first came out... now, they are already obsolete...

Why the Raid 5 array? I'm tired of losing all my data when my hard drive crashes. I have two dead laptops and a dead desktop... I know, I should back up... when I get this new machine running, I will...


Last Edited By: darrelll 07/19/2009 13:49. Edited 1 time.