RAID-0 questions

Dutch Guy · 5 Apr 2006 at 09:10

I will be getting 2x250Gb Hitachi T7K250 drives and was thinking about a RAID-0 setup but have a few questions.

- I know that if one drive fails all data is lost but is there also a big chance of data becoming corrupt without a drive failure?
- Is the nForce4 RAID option a good one or isn't it any faster than two single drives?
- Do you know any reviews/articles about how to set it up?
- Can I use Acronis True Image to clone my Windows install on IDE to the RAID array?
- Should I bother with RAID-0 or is the risk too great for a small increase in performance?

Dutch Guy · 5 Apr 2006 at 09:47

Thanks for the repluy, got some more Q's

- Do I connect the new drives alongside the old ones, setup RAID-0 on them, partition them, clone the old drive, disconnect the old drive and boot from the RAID array?
- What stripe size do you recommend, I don't do much video editing, only sometimes, mostly it's browsing, e-mailing, gaming and distributed computing so I was thinking about 128k or 64k?

Dutch Guy · 5 Apr 2006 at 15:31

smids said:
Good luck. Thing about Partition manager is that it isn't really that reliable. Anyway, sorry Dutch Guy for derailing your thread a bit there - it's still useful knowledge though!

I had a horrible time with Partition Manager in the past with resizing a partition, but it might be too late now as you are prolly doing it now, I hope it went well.

And tbh it's about RAID and is good information, at least I know you can change the stripe size without having to start over.

Dutch Guy · 5 Apr 2006 at 19:23

Harddrives are ordered so hopefully they turn up soon so I can get going with this.