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nymph4

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    RAID help
    « on: August 14, 2008, 09:04:55 PM »
    I am going to buy a Motherboard with onboard RAID 0. Striped.

    But I need to know somethings befor I go looking for the Motherboard. Most of the Motherboards have onboard RAID and they have say 6. SATA connectors on the Motherboard.

    Now I know that RAID 0. Striped is when you take a fue Drives and it uses it as one Large Drive this is what I want.

    What I need help with is if I get a Motherboard with RAID 0. and the Motherboard has 6. SATA connectors I want one Drive to be alone and just be used for the Operating System and Programs to be installed.

    And the other 5. SATA Drives I would like to be in the RAID 0. Striped can I do this or do all drives have to be in the RAID?????
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    homer



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      Re: RAID help
      « Reply #1 on: August 14, 2008, 09:43:54 PM »
      in the RAID setup, you can choose which drives you want to put in the RAID array. i, personally, have never set something like this up, but i believe it is possible.
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      JJ 3000



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      Re: RAID help
      « Reply #2 on: August 14, 2008, 10:45:09 PM »
      RAID 0 is fast but it has a flaw. Disk striping provides no redundancy. If you save a small file, it will be split into peices across the various hard drives. If one of those drives fail then you will lose all of your data.

      RAID 5 will provide parity and will be much safer.

      Instead of buying a new motherboard you can just get a RAID adapter card
      http://www.pcconnection.com/IPA/Shop/Product/Search.htm?term=sata%20RAID&DefSort=Y&searchFilter=ALL
      « Last Edit: August 14, 2008, 11:40:00 PM by JJ 3000 »
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      matthewr77



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        Re: RAID help
        « Reply #3 on: August 17, 2008, 04:56:53 AM »
        Do not get RAID 0 unless you plan to backup everything often.

        My old/dead computer has this array and after I had an issue with the motherboard I could not get access to my hard drives as the specific info is only at that out-dated motherboard. (A new old one can't be found)

        Oh, and hard drive recovery of a RAID 0 is roughly 3x the cost of a traditional drive.

        I suggest just purchasing a larger drive.  The Striped RAID is unlikely to provide much speed anyway as the bottleneck is usually elsewhere. (From what I've read)
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        nymph4

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          Re: RAID help
          « Reply #4 on: August 17, 2008, 05:21:30 PM »
          Well I do a lot lot of Video Editting and Audio Editting and the bigest HIDE Hard Drive out there is just 750MB   and the bigest a SATA Hard Drive out there is 1 TB

          And if I use RAID 1 and load win xp on it both drives will have a copy of everything and if one goes down I can replace it a Re Build the RAID.

          What do you think of this??
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