Raid advice

[timmillwood]

I currently have an old 400GB IDE drive is my machine. As you can see from my spec, it is the slowest point in my machine.

I was thinking of getting a new SATA drive which would be a lot faster, but then setting it up as RAID1 so I had failover, but would the old drive slow things down still? or would I not notice the raid because the new drive would be the master in the raid?

 

[rpstewart]

Firstly how is the IDE drive connected? The board in your sig has no IDE controllers.

Are you thinking of creating a RAID1 array using the old IDE drive and a new SATA drive?

If so that's a bad idea. RAID1 will cause the controller to wait until the data is written to both drives before moving on so you'll be bottlenecked by the older drive.

Then you get on to my usual bugbear - RAID1 is not a backup solution. You'd be better off sticking the IDE drive in an external caddy and using Robocopy or Synctoy to copy the content of a new boot drive to it.