having 2 diff hard-drives

kalson · 06-27-2005, 02:20 AM

is it ok to have a seagate 80gb 2md hard-drive and a Maxtor 200gb 8mb hard-drive together?

elmarcorulz · 06-27-2005, 02:27 AM

yeah, as long as you dont plan to raid them

kalson · 06-27-2005, 02:28 AM

wats raid them? how do u do dat?

edit: sry im a nub at hard-drives

mgoldb2 · 06-27-2005, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by kalson

wats raid them? how do u do dat?

edit: sry im a nub at hard-drives

RAID 101

kalson · 06-27-2005, 02:34 AM

so basically in words is not having those 2 hard-drives combined into a C: or something?

kof2000 · 06-27-2005, 02:43 AM

raid is supposed to be like a life saver but i've heard that if one drive fails you lose all datas on both drives?

j0hn00 · 06-27-2005, 09:20 AM

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raid is supposed to be like a life saver but i've heard that if one drive fails you lose all datas on both drives?

That's RAID 0. It gives a boost in performance with the ever so lingering possibility that you can lose everything if one of the drives fails. Other RAID options exist.

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yeah, as long as you dont plan to raid them

He can still use RAID with the two Seagates and then use the Maxtor as a backup. That is assuming he has RAID on his motherboard or a RAID card.

elmarcorulz · 06-27-2005, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by j0hn00

He can still use RAID with the two Seagates and then use the Maxtor as a backup. That is assuming he has RAID on his motherboard or a RAID card.

i know, but he only has 1 seagate hard drive, or am i reading wrong?

j0hn00 · 06-27-2005, 02:40 PM

Oops... my bad. I read it wrong. You're right.

06-27-2005, 02:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
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kalson Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 174	wats raid them? how do u do dat? edit: sry im a nub at hard-drives __________________ AMD 64bit X2 3800+ ASUS A8N-SLI 1GB X 2 + 512MB X 2 = 3GB DDR400 Dual channel SLI Evga 6800GS 256mb 320gb SATA2 WDD 120gb SATA WDD mmmmm i want new CPU!

06-27-2005, 02:34 AM	#5 (permalink)
kalson Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 174	so basically in words is not having those 2 hard-drives combined into a C: or something? __________________ AMD 64bit X2 3800+ ASUS A8N-SLI 1GB X 2 + 512MB X 2 = 3GB DDR400 Dual channel SLI Evga 6800GS 256mb 320gb SATA2 WDD 120gb SATA WDD mmmmm i want new CPU!

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06-27-2005, 02:40 PM	#9 (permalink)
j0hn00 Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 324	Oops... my bad. I read it wrong. You're right.

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