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| 21310 | 2001-10-13 23:59:00 | Hi there, I'm interested in setting up a RAID array on my computer, mainly for speed reasons, and also to learn :) I'm planning on buying a PCI RAID card, and two 20 gig drives. But I have some questions: 1) I've read about the different options for RAID arrays - striping, mirroring, etc - what do you guys think should be used on a production, everyday machine who's purpose ranges from games to programming, with the main aim being speed, without risking data too much.... 2) Does every partition on the two drives have to be part of the array? or can I specify? Thanks alot, Bill |
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| 21311 | 2001-10-14 00:07:00 | In particular, I'm interested in RAID 0, as I'm wanting performance, but are the risks the same as one har drive failing? Also, I'm wanting to keep my current hard drive in here, on it's own IDE channel - that'll be good enough for my OS's and crucial data won't it? Will copying data from my RAID 0 array to my current Hard drive bring the data back to normal - and make it safe? Finally, if I get two 20 gig drives, and partition them to 10 gig each - I have 4 10 gig drives - do I see four drives in Windows explorer, or perhaps 2 20 gig drives? I'm not entirely sure about all of this, so thanks for any help. Bill m |
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| 21312 | 2001-10-14 00:51:00 | Found a good link: www.usbyte.com :-) Dylan Cruickshank |
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| 21313 | 2001-10-14 01:39:00 | with raid0 the failure risk is twice that of a single drive, if one hard drive is lost then all data on the array is lost. software raid is the cheapest but if you can afford it a hardware raid card running raid5 (minimum of 3 drives required) is a good choice for speed and redunatcy. windows sees the array as one drive. you can partion it into 4 drives. the set up i've just done on mine is raid0 with 2 30gig drives partitioned into 4 drives. 1 os(1gig), 1 19gig for apps and 2 20gig for data. with my old drive on the onboard ide as a backup drive. |
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