maybe a bad question

devil · 03-03-2006, 04:49 AM

this may make me seem "newb" to computers and stuff but i dont really get the raid thing. so i have a western dig hd which is 250 gb. if i wanted to i cud put a raptor drive thats 74 gb and put them in... raid 0? and then it would be faster? its a little confusing to me. so if i have two that means i could load the operating system onto one and games onto the other or something? or whats the best way to load stuff on to two drives?

Mr.Suave · 03-03-2006, 05:21 AM

have your read Raid 101?

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if i wanted to i cud put a raptor drive thats 74 gb and put them in... raid 0?

you could but then the 250gb HD will become 74gb becuase in raid 0 both HDD have to have the same amount.(or at least i think so)

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so if i have two that means i could load the operating system onto one and games onto the other or something?

its better to do that but dont raid the HD's together. just have the 250 for the OS and other storage stuff then have the 74gb raptor for games so it faster when loading them.

suprasteve · 03-03-2006, 06:08 AM

you can have as many separate hard drives as you have places to plug them in on your motherboard, but raid is different than this. Raid 0 basically takes every other piece of memory and puts it on one drive and every other piece on a different hard drive the same size, thereby increasing your data rates since you're pulling information from two places at once. Raid 1 basically takes two hard drives and treats them as one, all the information is stored on both all the time. It sounds like your question is more just getting another hard drive, in which case raid is unnecessary. You can read more about the other kinds of raid either in raid 101 or online

03-03-2006, 04:49 AM	#1 (permalink)
devil Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 63	maybe a bad question this may make me seem "newb" to computers and stuff but i dont really get the raid thing. so i have a western dig hd which is 250 gb. if i wanted to i cud put a raptor drive thats 74 gb and put them in... raid 0? and then it would be faster? its a little confusing to me. so if i have two that means i could load the operating system onto one and games onto the other or something? or whats the best way to load stuff on to two drives?

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03-03-2006, 06:08 AM	#3 (permalink)
suprasteve Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,355	you can have as many separate hard drives as you have places to plug them in on your motherboard, but raid is different than this. Raid 0 basically takes every other piece of memory and puts it on one drive and every other piece on a different hard drive the same size, thereby increasing your data rates since you're pulling information from two places at once. Raid 1 basically takes two hard drives and treats them as one, all the information is stored on both all the time. It sounds like your question is more just getting another hard drive, in which case raid is unnecessary. You can read more about the other kinds of raid either in raid 101 or online