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| 485784 | 2006-09-19 12:35:00 | Hi I have 2 SATA HDD HDD1 Seagate 200 GB Sata HDD2 Seagate 300GB Sata 2 I have motherboard which supports sata 2 Now my question is .... do i need to create RAID, what are the advantages? ... |
gum digger (6100) | ||
| 485785 | 2006-09-19 20:13:00 | There is absolutely no need to create RAID, BUT RAID can give a more performance than single drives, drives as the are, are fine, but what RAID can do depends on the format of RAID you use for example RAID 0 is striping the data across all drives so it can read/write to two drives instead of them singley (faster performance), BUT with RAID 0 if one drive dies... you loose ALL data. There are different bennefits and losses for different RAIDs Have a read here (en.wikipedia.org) should provide you with more than enough info :) |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 485786 | 2006-09-20 02:56:00 | If you use RAID with your current setup you'll lose at least 100gb. Its best to use matching drives that way you wont lose any capacity. | Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 485787 | 2006-09-20 04:28:00 | If you did go RAID then its set to the slower one. That being 200GB and just a SATA. Just use them normally. |
trinsic (6945) | ||
| 485788 | 2006-09-20 05:51:00 | If you wanted to merge them into one drive, Windows XP Professional can do that, somehow. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 485789 | 2006-09-20 06:41:00 | few choices for you to pick.. Raid 0 - it's striped so you get performance boost but if one drive dies..you loose everything also due to your hdd size difference 100Gb can't be used ie. now your max. space is stuck at 400Gb (the 100Gb left go nothing to stipe with) JBOD..not really raid but this just makes your two drives look like one big 500Gb drive so..if you have a massive 499Gb file..now it fits :D Raid 1 - mirror mirror..loose most hdd space you'll only end up with 200Gb to use if you choose this but you can get your data back if one of the hdd dies raid's pro and con at different raid levels is basically just difference between performance and how well the data will survive if hdd decides to die if you're not really wanting any of that then don't really need to set up any raid stuff i guess.. |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 485790 | 2006-09-20 07:07:00 | so..if you have a massive 499Gb file..now it fits :D Not necessarily. Windows uses some space up itself, for programs etc., about 1-2GB fresh install. Unless you are talking about Windows itself... :D |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 485791 | 2006-09-21 06:11:00 | Hehe, i think iam good with my current setup. I just wanted to feel RAID. how it works and actually try it. |
gum digger (6100) | ||
| 485792 | 2006-09-21 06:35:00 | Are you sure you want to lose 100GB of space? | pcuser42 (130) | ||
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