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Graeme43

Graeme43

Graeme43

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Hello :D I want to create a RAID setup on my Xeon computer because I need the extra speed ;) It has SATA-2 support.

"RAID-0. This technique has no redundancy of data. It offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance whatsoever. If you lose one drive, the whole array will fail. At least 2 drives needed"

I was wanting to buy another 320GB drive like I have and buy the 600GB Lacie USB2 external that is on OCuk for backing up.

I have a WD 3200JD (WDC WD3200JD-22KLB0) drive which is the 320GB SE16 SATA 1 edition. It is discontinued. I was hoping to buy the drive but its not for sale anywhere.... :rolleyes: it has been replaced by the 3200KS (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-070-WD)

Soooo does anyone know if the WD 320GB model 3200JD and 3200KS would work in a RAID? It'd save me buying another drive! :D

Thanks :D
 
I want to be able to backup all the stuff on my drive, its all important and can't be recollected :eek: Just now I have a 320 internal and 300 and 250 external which I backup my 320 to the 250 just now as its not full and the 300 is full without backup.

If I had 2 x 320 raid I can fit all my stuff on the RAID and backup everything by cloning to something that'll fit it all :D
 
I have 500GB of stuff I need to backup, so if I had a 640GB RAID then I can do a straight clone to the 600 every 3 days and that means if the main fails that I'll only lose a few days of logs basically.

I use software that clones my drive to another identically and will only update what is required to make it identical so the process is quick after the first backup.
 
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Ya think I could use a maxtor 300 and a wd 320 to make a 600gb raid? :confused:

Two different drives can be used but at a small cost. Keeping in mind that the workload is being balanced, the computer sets the drives up to be equal. If you have an 80 and a 120 gb drive, RAID 0 will have your machine treat them as two 80 gb drives, ignoring the extra 40 gb of space on drive two.

If that works then I can save moolah :D and the 600 can mirror the 600gb raid
 
I got the LaCie USB2 600GB, but it only gives me 5-8mb/s transfer speed :mad: :mad: :mad: USB 2 max says 60MB/s and I know that it wont constantly be that but I was expecting it to be at least 20 considering it said it was very fast and it has drives in RAID 0. I can't stand the speed of it, I might just return it for being extremely slow and get the 750GB seagate firewire drive :rolleyes:

It's SOOO SLOW!!! 16+ hours just to fill it and yes I have USB2
 
My file sizes range from 300mb to 1gb files

My single firewire drive gets 3x the performance where it seeming to do stuff very quick but the lacie takes ages

After the 250gb file copy is done (which is at 4 out of 5 hours estimated time right now is done, I'll do a performance test on both my fw + usb drive and the lacie to see if its slower than other USB drives I have which seemed to perform acceptable :confused:
 
My new WD3200ks vibrates so much my case buzzes and the smart status just went to failing 5 hours after I got it :rolleyes:
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Well I got my other WD3200KS and it doesnt have nearly the same amount of vibration :D looks like I got another lemon :mad: :( :rolleyes:
 
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