I'll be getting a new system tmr with 2 640GB WD Black edition drives and 2 1TB WD Green edition drives. The two 640GB will be in RAID 0 and use for windows install and software, whilst the 1TB drives will be in RAID 1 and used for storage and backup.
I've never used RAID before so bare with me please.
From what I've read for the RAID 0 set up I should aim to use a 64k stripe as I do a mixture of gaming, word and CAD work. I've also read I should partition the drive so I have a 20GB swap partition which is running a 4k stripe. Does that make sense and is it worth doing?
For the RAID 1 drives, it's a storage of downloads, pics, music and documents. The larger the stripe size here the better?
I've never used RAID before so bare with me please.
From what I've read for the RAID 0 set up I should aim to use a 64k stripe as I do a mixture of gaming, word and CAD work. I've also read I should partition the drive so I have a 20GB swap partition which is running a 4k stripe. Does that make sense and is it worth doing?
For the RAID 1 drives, it's a storage of downloads, pics, music and documents. The larger the stripe size here the better?
