Partitioning a RAID arry.

NachT · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:31

I'm running a RAID 0 with 2 hard disks. So you have like, 2x 200GB HD's, that gives you a 400GB drive, as you know

But what I was woundering is, if I partitioned that 400GB drive ( 2 drives striped ) into say, one 350GB and one 50GB. Would the preformance still be exactly the same as not partitioning the drive?

Would I get the same speeds results from either partition? So there'd be no slow down at all if I partitioned?

lol, hope that made sense :eek:

rpstewart · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:44

By partitioning the drive you can force a particular logical drive to be at the start of the disk where the transfer rate is fastest, this can be useful for holding the OS etc.

NachT · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:54

Thanks, can the logical drive be forced to the start of the disk using tools from within vista/XP ?

Or would I need a 3rd party application to do that?

rpstewart · 5 Mar 2007 at 16:19

Normally partitions are created from the start (fast end) of the disk by default so if you start with a blank array and create a 50Gb partition during the install you'll end up with the partition at the start of the array.

NachT · 5 Mar 2007 at 17:15

kool nice one!