help on raid

dannywaugh1 · 24 Sep 2007 at 18:21

ok i am goin to be putting anoth 500gb hdd in my computer as a storage hdd for mucis films all that other stuff, i currently have a 500gb in my computer for that use and i am wanting to know if i can put them in raid config without having to format the other drive thats i am currently using for storage?

also how do i do about raid configerating them?

cheers!

semi-pro waster · 24 Sep 2007 at 18:33

I'm not altogether sure you can, Raid0 (striping) is certainly impossible to put in Raid without formatting both drives. Raid1 (mirroring) might allow you to do it but it will probably depend on the controller.

Also could your sort your signature out, it can be a maximum of 400x75 pixels so you need to put in the returns manually since word-wrap isn't enabled at the moment. Thanks.

dannywaugh1 · 24 Sep 2007 at 18:43

ok well formatting the hdd isnot a problem just fort u could keep the data on there. i will put the data oon my external hdd then.

next question is how do i setup raid? and witch one would you go for?

rpstewart · 24 Sep 2007 at 18:56

dannywaugh1 said:
next question is how do i setup raid? and witch one would you go for?

That depends on what motherboard you have and the reasons you have for deciding to look at a RAID setup.

A bit more info and we'll sort you out.

dannywaugh1 · 24 Sep 2007 at 21:45

rpstewart said:
That depends on what motherboard you have and the reasons you have for deciding to look at a RAID setup.

A bit more info and we'll sort you out.

my motherboard is a bfg nvidia 680i sli
and i was looking to go for raid because i want the full 1tb of starage from the 2 drives and i want my data to be save

rpstewart · 24 Sep 2007 at 21:53

1) RAID is not a backup, all it provides (with the exception of RAID0) is hardware redundancy to allow you to keep running in the event of a disk failure. If you (or something else) delete a file then it's gone, same as with a single disk.

2) There isn't a RAID mode that will give you full capacity and redundancy. Only RAID0 will allow you access to all the space in the array but with no redundancy, in fact if one drive dies the entire array is lost.

dannywaugh1 · 25 Sep 2007 at 13:55

rpstewart said:
1) RAID is not a backup, all it provides (with the exception of RAID0) is hardware redundancy to allow you to keep running in the event of a disk failure. If you (or something else) delete a file then it's gone, same as with a single disk.

2) There isn't a RAID mode that will give you full capacity and redundancy. Only RAID0 will allow you access to all the space in the array but with no redundancy, in fact if one drive dies the entire array is lost.

ok i see. sorry if it seemed a bit simple as i did not know what raid was used for, thanks for your help