Raid 0

I cant find the motherboard your refering to. But its like this, your motherboard bust have a onboard raid controller, should say on the box. Now a days all motherboards come out with this. Installing is fairly simple as booting entering raid setup and creating a raid. Then when installing windows you'll have to to load the raid drivers from stiffy that you got off the motherboard cd.
 
Surely Raiding your discs is an invitation for problems? If one of the discs in the array goes down they all fail? This increases the probability of hard drive failure.
 
well firstly raiding 2 320 gig hdd is not a good thing man

raid should only be used for OS and not for storage unless you dont mind loosing your data

raid offers alot more performance

rather go with 2 x 80 gig or 2 x 160 gig and dont store important info on it

what mobo do you have?
 
killadoob said:
well firstly raiding 2 320 gig hdd is not a good thing man

raid should only be used for OS and not for storage unless you dont mind loosing your data

raid offers alot more performance

rather go with 2 x 80 gig or 2 x 160 gig and dont store important info on it

what mobo do you have?
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I prefer, one HDD for the OS and another for data/save games/software installations/etc. Hmmm... will have to consider all options.

I've considered using RAID 0 but decided against it on this machine. I'm gonna get an upgrade shortly and will purchase my HDD accordingly.
 
dude raid is an amazing system boost

installing stuff and general day to day use is so much faster

the reason you use raid only for your OS is because of failure, but a raid config failing is remote but it does happen

loosing your OS is not bad but loosing 600 gig of media and must suck :)

i have run raid for a few years and the only time i have a problem is when i replace my mobo but a simple image load mobo reimage and its sorted

i have also never had a raid config fail on me :), although this does not mean it never happens
 
killadoob said:
dude raid is an amazing system boost

installing stuff and general day to day use is so much faster

the reason you use raid only for your OS is because of failure, but a raid config failing is remote but it does happen

loosing your OS is not bad but loosing 600 gig of media and must suck :)

i have run raid for a few years and the only time i have a problem is when i replace my mobo but a simple image load mobo reimage and its sorted

i have also never had a raid config fail on me :), although this does not mean it never happens
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When you say OS, are you talking about the OS and all the installed (as in Windows C:/Program Files) applications? Because reserving 640Gb just for your OS seems a bit excessive.
 
yea totally man 640 is just crazy and a waste of space

yes you use your raid drive for your operating system and program installs games install etc but save nothing of importance on that raid drive
 
killadoob said:
yea totally man 640 is just crazy and a waste of space

yes you use your raid drive for your operating system and program installs games install etc but save nothing of importance on that raid drive
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Cool. Cool.
 
Is'nt RAID 0 a little unstable cause of stripping accross multiple drives?

Wikipedia said:
When one sector on one of the disks fails, however, the corresponding sector on every other disk is rendered useless because part of the data is now corrupted. RAID 0 does not implement error checking so any error is unrecoverable. More disks in the array means higher bandwidth, but greater risk of data loss.
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I my self would have OS on one drive and everything on another
 
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Glordit said:
Is'nt RAID 0 a little unstable cause of stripping accross multiple drives?



I my self would have OS on one drive and everything els on another
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What has been mentioned above is RAIDing the OS drives 2+ harddrives and keeping all additional drives (containing your more valuable files) seperate.
 
glor raid is not more unstable than your average drive man

the chances of your raid config failing are about the same as your single hdd failing

raid is perfect with no problems what so eva

there is your concern but in my experience with raid your concern is not a problem

it still remains a concern and thats why you should only have OS plus installs on the drive :)
 
yea the only ting i hate about raid is having to use a stiffy drive

luckily in vista you can use a usb stick :)
 
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