RAID?

TWGL · 7 Apr 2006 at 19:26

Is it possible to have two hard drives with o/s and applications installed on it in any type of raid while having a third hard drive that would have all important documents stored on it? Tried searching google but couldn't find an answer. Thanks.

growse · 7 Apr 2006 at 19:31

Yes.....?

Mikey1280 · 7 Apr 2006 at 19:33

Err yes, you could have two sata II 80gb for example drives in raid 0 for speed and then have just have a 160gb drive for example for important documents, if they are really important you could have the two important data drives in raid 1 for reliability.

Rambaud · 7 Apr 2006 at 19:33

Yes.

I have a RAID0 array for OSs and applications. Plus 3 other drives for Data etc.

TWGL · 8 Apr 2006 at 19:12

So I would set up the two in raid0 and then leave the other drive and it would just function as normal.

Jimi · 8 Apr 2006 at 20:12

If your going to be using RAID in home/gaming use then you may aswell just use JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) as RAID offers little to no performance increase over JBOD, plus you run the risk of one of your disks dying on you and losing all your data.

smids · 9 Apr 2006 at 00:45

Jimi said:
If your going to be using RAID in home/gaming use then you may aswell just use JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) as RAID offers little to no performance increase over JBOD, plus you run the risk of one of your disks dying on you and losing all your data.

I have to disagree. I found a RAID0 array for my gaming certainly a lot faster than a single drive as well as windows being a lot faster to boot and load apps. When I capture video, it is also much better with less dropped frames. Yes, there is a risk of loss of data but if you keep a decent backup solution, then I don;t see why not.

In fact, my main drive is a 80GB x4 RAID0+1 - same size as a raptor 150GB (actually about 8GB more), faster, more reliability and cheaper.