What is RAID?

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I'm confused by RAID.

My understanding of it is that I can run two drives in RAID and it spreads the information over these two drives, as if to combine them together. Is this true?

Basically I have a 74gb Raptor drive that runs all my programs and my other drives are for storage only and are 7200rpm. My Raptor has run out of space, can I use RAID to add another Raptor drive to my current one and use both to run my programs from?


I'm probably well wrong but I would love to know either way.

Thank you very much.
 
you can use disk spanning(basically it allows you to us another phyiscal disc to increase the logical one if that makes sense) that comes with windows if your using xp (im not sure about vista) though you would probably be better off if you can moving the data over to other drives and possibly investing in creating a raid 5 and having only OS and apps on the raptor which im guessing is your system disk.

hope this helps

and as for using more then one raptor you can, but you would have to use raid 0 (striping) and would need to reformat them i believe as you cant create it from a live disc. though the only issue with raid 0 is that there is no fault tolarance e.g. 1 disc dies lose all your data so from that perspective, you may want to consider 0+1. you can find more info most likely in this fourm or just google raid setups
 
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George Michael said:
I'm confused by RAID.

My understanding of it is that I can run two drives in RAID and it spreads the information over these two drives, as if to combine them together. Is this true?

Basically I have a 74gb Raptor drive that runs all my programs and my other drives are for storage only and are 7200rpm. My Raptor has run out of space, can I use RAID to add another Raptor drive to my current one and use both to run my programs from?


I'm probably well wrong but I would love to know either way.

Thank you very much.

You just want a striped raid... yes you will be able to add a 74gb raptor then set up the raid at the controller's bios and windows will see it as a 140gb logical drive.. theoritically this doubles the speed as you are reading from two hard disks at the same time.. in reality there's an improvement but its not as big.

To set up this type of raid you will need to format your current hard disk. Alternatively just buy another hard disk and install software to it ey
 
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