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Thread ID: 100797 2009-06-20 13:18:00 New harddrive setup ZapperBoy10647 (11988) Press F1
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784142 2009-06-20 13:18:00 Im looking at getting a 1tb HDD and using it as a slave(well you know, not as an os)... if i do get it and decide later to get another 1tb hdd for a raid array does it have to be of the same model? and is there a noticeable difference in speed?

Heres some possibilitys of my new config

Current: 320Gb WD Caviar... 40.6GB C drive 257GB D drive

Future

320 C
1TB D

or

320+320 C

1TB + 1TB D????

Good idea? waste of time?!? what do you think.....
ZapperBoy10647 (11988)
784143 2009-06-20 21:49:00 Waste of time.
www.overclockercafe.com

And what could you possibly need 2 TB of storage for?
Must be a hell of a pirate.
pctek (84)
784144 2009-06-20 22:20:00 Must be a hell of a pirate.

:lol: wonder what pctek will say if she ever sees my collection :p
ronyville (10611)
784145 2009-06-21 01:05:00 Photography - maybe... :) R.M. (561)
784146 2009-06-21 02:14:00 Or recording tv...alot hueybot3000 (3646)
784147 2009-06-21 02:19:00 Saying you want to set up a RAID array - But which RAID- theres 6 Basic types ?? (en.wikipedia.org) ( scroll down the page for listings)

I just had a customers PC last week - the Guy who built the PC Originally (not me) set it to Mirror RAID 2 x 250GB Drives - which in theory meant if One Drive failed the other would carry on.

BUT in this case the main drive became completely corrupted, and un -bootable, which was mirrored to the second drive :groan: "GREAT" two drives both with knackered / identical problems. :rolleyes:
wainuitech (129)
784148 2009-06-21 02:21:00 Thats why a second "backup" RAID is used, which means you have 4 hard drives used for one's worth of data.
Give me a singe hard drive anyday. Perhaps he should build a file server
hueybot3000 (3646)
784149 2009-06-21 02:25:00 Thats why a second "backup" RAID is used, which means you have 4 hard drives used for one's worth of data.
Give me a singe hard drive anyday. Perhaps he should build a file server Thats EXACTLY what I did, reinstalled the OS / Programs etc, one drive the main, the other a Slave ( moved the document files to the salve) - AND installed WHS for file serving, and daily backups, (4 pc's in total) along with daily backups to another removable HDD for the main working documents from the server. :thumbs:
wainuitech (129)
784150 2009-06-21 02:27:00 You'd be lost without WHS wouldnt you wainuitech :lol: hueybot3000 (3646)
784151 2009-06-21 03:02:00 Wish I could afford it gary67 (56)
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