Quick Raid Question

[PaulyD]

Just ordered a Seagate 500Gb 7200.11 hdd 32mb cache, am wanting to raid this with a western digital 500gb hdd - not sure on cache size off hand.

To my understanding, its only the space that matters when it comes to raiding? and the best for capacity and read time is raid0?

 

[PaulyD]

Thanks - I would have thought that the cache would not really matter much for this.

Anyway the drive has arrived and is now in - just gonna format and reinstall with the raid driver. Reinstalling with 64bit as i just got another 2gig of ram to make 4gig

Thanks for the helpful reply

 

[PaulyD]

WHOA guys - chill out

I do have an understanding of raid and the different levels - but I was in front of my PC and knew i would get a faster response from here then me finding out my old cisco books and reading up, though i should still dig them out and read up!

Leezy - it's really easy. I have two different manufacturer's drives but both are 500gb and im pretty sure both 32mb cache - not sure on speeds...

I selected Raid in my bios for the hard drives and i got a text based menu come up - selected raid0 and which hard drives and it done it automatically, formatted etc. Only issue i had was my bios defaulted to my old skool ide backup drive and got the error message "NTLDR not found" but a quick google search sorted that (Its where a boot record is not found simply or hdd issues). Changed that in bios and it worked.

Must say I have found a HUGE increase in speed, things just move, copy and install so much faster + you get the extra space

Also - My vista rating for my hard drives went from 5.7 to 5.9 so I get perfect score across the board