raid modes?

Tosk

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hi im setting up a new sata2 wd 250gig hdd and i was wondering about what mode i should use?

its giving me these options

mirroring
striping
striping mirroring
spanning
raid 5


im only using 1 hdd for now. so whats should i have
it set at thanks for any help.

ive setup raid befor on a sata150 hdd but i never saw these options befor..

im thinking of using another 1 the same later on or i may even buy a biger 1
 
If you only have one drive then you can't use RAID.

You're better off setting the SATA ports to non RAID (IDE mode or whatever the equivalent in your BIOS is), that way the drive just operates on it's own and Windows can see it without needing any additional drivers.
 
thanks m8 so its only best to use raid on 2x hdds?

can you tell me what the different modes are when you got the time please
i sort of have some understanding of some of them.. but im still unsure whats what lol

mm so if i get another 1 of the same make and model . i could have them set to striping? or would use have them set differently ?

dunno if i want to mirror them really..

thanks again rpstewart. had a feeling you be he first to help me out :)
 
You can only run RAID if you have at least 2 disks (3 for RAID5, 4 for RAID6,10 or 0+1). There are descriptions of the various levels in the sticky at the top of the forum.

Striping is the common name for RAID0 and that's what most folk go for. You need 2 drives, preferably identical but it's not necessary, the data is striped across the disks, half on one and half on the other, so that when it is read back it comes off both disks simultaneously thereby increasing the transfer rate. There is no redundancy though, if one drive dies the entire contents of the array is lost.

Mirroring (RAID1) writes the same data to both disks so you lose half the total capacity. There's no performance gain and writes can be slower than a single disk but you have redundancy if one drive fails the other continues to operate and no data is lost.

thanks again rpstewart. had a feeling you be he first to help me out
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