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Title: Setting up a RAID
Post by: fischer on July 13, 2004, 04:14:22 PM

Alright guys, been thinking about doing this for  awhile, but wasn't 100% sure where to start..

software or controller?  pros cons?

what software should i use?

any good tutorials (i surfed, but didnt see anything great)

raid 1, 5 or 9?  which do you think? prolly 1 eh?

Title: Re: Setting up a RAID
Post by: Scooter on July 14, 2004, 11:53:58 PM

I use the RAID controller on my Soyo MB in RAID 0 configuration.  No mirroring(sp) but performance is inhanced.  Your capacity is equal to the smaller of the two drives.  I got a significant speed increase when I went RAID...

Title: Re: Setting up a RAID
Post by: hoobash on July 14, 2004, 11:58:23 PM

I just dumped my raid


http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101

Title: Re: Setting up a RAID
Post by: nic on July 15, 2004, 11:23:49 AM

Quote from: snoof on July 14, 2004, 11:53:58 PM

I use the RAID controller on my Soyo MB in RAID 0 configuration.  No mirroring(sp) but performance is inhanced.  Your capacity is equal to the smaller of the two drives.  I got a significant speed increase when I went RAID...

RAID 0 is "striping", thereby, your capacity is equal to the sum of your 2 drives.
of course, if 1 drive goes down, you loose the data on the other drive as well . . .

Title: Re: Setting up a RAID
Post by: Scooter on July 15, 2004, 12:52:51 PM

Yes, you are correct.  I meant to say that say you have a 40 Gig and a 30 Gig, you will get only 60 Gig capacity instead of 70. :D