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30663	2002-01-10 19:39:00	Hey there everyone. I'm really happy to say that I was able to reinstall Windows XP, and now everything seems back to normal. My question for you now is about RAID. I did a little bit of reading into it a while back, and am interested in it mainly for speed reasons - I believe currently my computers bottlenecks will be with my hard drive. Currently, with my 5400rpm 13gig hard drive, I can't tell the difference between converting between a Celeron 400mhz and a Duron 1ghz. I have 256mb SDRAM (at 100mhz), a 64mb GeForce 2 MX400, SB Live!, and so am fairly sure it is none of these. Is this right: RAID 0 - that's basically where the files are 'split' at regular sizes (eg: 4kb, 64kb, 1024kb - whatever), and placed equally over the number of drives. It also means the chances of loosing data increases slightly, due to the reliance on two hard drives. It increases performance, but it also depends on the hard drives initially purchased - would 2 40gig 7200rpm HD's be right? or should I be looking for more rpm? Is it too risky to run at RAID 0, if I finally decide to do proper system backups? :) Also, how would a RAID 0 set of Hard drives appear in Windows? Would it be as one drive, double the size? And how about partitioning the drives - what would I see in Partition Magic? Thanks alot, Jonathan Giles	Guest (0)
30664	2002-01-10 23:04:00	you have it roughly right. the 2x40g 7200rpm drives will be sweet. there is a higher chance of failer, if one drive fails all data is lost. raid0 is not recommended for buisness setups. use your 13g as a backup drive. i'm surprised you haven't notice a difference between the 400 and 1g cpu's. mayby the progs you run don't require a large amount of speed. you should notice the speed increase in most fast paced games. even windows should be quicker. unless you already have onboard raid you wioll need a raid raid. highpoint is a comman cheape, runs fine when thsy work but suffer from incompatabilities hence the amount of updates for them. don't exspect an onboard raid to be free of incompatabilities some mobo's raid really suck. promise is very good very compatable but expencive. once you have your raid set up you can put any cd burner on to its own ide channel on the mobo, makes burning so much better. with 80gig grive it would be best to partion it into a small working drive, an apps drive and storage drives. windows won't actually see the 2 hards drives it will just see the partitions as drives.	Guest (0)
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