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D.Roberts

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Hi all i keep hearing conflicting results here. i have two hard drives the same i want a raid setup to increase performance so having a raid for backup is not my concern i want it to be for speed.

i was told a raid 0 is for me i just want it to be faster then a single drive what would you lot recomend oh and its for games.

cheers all
 
D.Roberts said:
Hi all i keep hearing conflicting results here. i have two hard drives the same i want a raid setup to increase performance so having a raid for backup is not my concern i want it to be for speed.

i was told a raid 0 is for me i just want it to be faster then a single drive what would you lot recomend oh and its for games.

cheers all
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yep, raid-0 or 'striped' is what you want. remember to keep backups, avoid using hibernation modes and generaly elevate your care towards the computer. RAID stripes are sometimes easily damaged or knocked off kilter. it's never realy a good idea to keep single copies of very important data on them.

also, it's best used as your system (c:/) drive. You should install windows et al on it, rather than running it as a storage drive, you will gain nothing from it doing it like that.
 
thanks for the replys so it can damage the drives or the data on it running them in raid 0 or striped? why is this?.

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hi again :) im looking at making a raid disk for when i install i have got the latest app from asus i have an asus striker extreme and only option i have is to make a disk to floppy im sure i read i could make one on a usb memory stick or cd?.

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if i buy a copy of win 7/vista i wont need to get a floppy as they are built in am i correct goes to ocuk for new operating system hehe
 
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D.Roberts said:
thanks for the replys so it can damage the drives or the data on it running them in raid 0 or striped? why is this?.

edit

hi again :) im looking at making a raid disk for when i install i have got the latest app from asus i have an asus striker extreme and only option i have is to make a disk to floppy im sure i read i could make one on a usb memory stick or cd?.

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if i buy a copy of win 7/vista i wont need to get a floppy as they are built in am i correct goes to ocuk for new operating system hehe
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no no, not damage the drives themselves...
A raid stripe essentially splits the data over 2 drives:
the same data is written, by being split halfy halfy over two (or more) drives. one disk is useless without the other. if one drive was to fail all the data would be lost. All I'm saying is that it's very easy to knock them 'out of sync' as it were. things like blue screens of death, hibernation and other hardware problems can do this. just treat them as 'sensitive'.

RAID is a wonderful thing, I'd never go back to single drives. I've installed RAID on hundreds of high end machines, all have been fine but you would get the odd one which would get knocked out and data would be lost.

just follow common sense when it comes to keeping back-ups of your important data.

thankfully you will not need to make a RAID disk! they're pretty much a thing of the past now, thanks to vista and win7.
 
ok thanks i will have to purchase win7 or vista tho as i only have XP and tbh i have no floppy drive about time i made the switch any ways :).

cheers
 
ripperOFflesh said:
raid 0 im setting my 2 500gigs in raid 0 soon just researching at the moment
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Ripper this is not aimed at you directly as I have no idea of the scenario you're in.

I think I should point out that from experience, you're better off having smaller RAID system drives, and larger storage drives. I used to run 2x 640G's in RAID 0 and while it was great in some respects. it meant that filling it up was just giving it more and more information to potentially lose. I depends what you use if for I guess. If it's purly for games and no doccuments, important pictures and soon are going on it then fine, or if you already have, and keep regular backups. It's best practice, however to have a storage or back up drive equal or bigger than the amount of information you use. It's always going to be redundant in a way, but problems will arise when you...

1) need to reinstall windows and have no where to put your terrabyte of information

2) your RAID fails and you face losing all of that data

3) you need to reinstall windows, but your got full up a long time ago and there is things on your system drive you have no room for.

After being in, and seeing the above situations happen I opt for smaller sstem drives. usually 2x 160gb or 2x 250gb. infact just a couple of month ago, I had helped a friend build up his computer, and warned him of point 1. Guess who had to go around with a handful of spare disks and transfer all of his files :o

Rick
 
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