To RAID or not?
- Thread starter Priapus
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If your using them for your windows/applications drive then Raid 0 would be a good performance boost.
If your using them for storage I recommend you don’t use Raid 0 as it doubles the chance of losing everything (if one drive fails or Raid screws up you lose the data from both drives!). Raid 1 would be a better idea as suggested above.
If your using them for storage I recommend you don’t use Raid 0 as it doubles the chance of losing everything (if one drive fails or Raid screws up you lose the data from both drives!). Raid 1 would be a better idea as suggested above.
Depends what you want to do.
If you want better transfer rates then RAID0 will give you that although if you want to boot from the array it's reinstall time.
If you do stuff which has a lot of simultaneous I/O then you might get better real world performance by running the disks individually. For example when encoding video read the source file from one and write the output to another.
RAID1 has been mentioned but remember RAID1 is NOT the same as a backup. It provides continuous availability in the event of a hardware failure, that's all. If you (or something else) delete or corrupt a file then it's gone, same as on a single disk.
If you want better transfer rates then RAID0 will give you that although if you want to boot from the array it's reinstall time.
If you do stuff which has a lot of simultaneous I/O then you might get better real world performance by running the disks individually. For example when encoding video read the source file from one and write the output to another.
RAID1 has been mentioned but remember RAID1 is NOT the same as a backup. It provides continuous availability in the event of a hardware failure, that's all. If you (or something else) delete or corrupt a file then it's gone, same as on a single disk.
Well, I want better proformace....I will have my personal back up on other drives..These two 250Gb will be for windows/games/video ecoding (from an external drive)
So, in this case I must go for..RAID0? (How do I set this up exactly?
Many thanks!
So, in this case I must go for..RAID0? (How do I set this up exactly?
Many thanks!