HD space

[redrider13]

i wanna get two HD's so i can put them in RAID 0, about how much space would i need on each HD about 80 or what?

 

[deathbysunshine]

i heard raid 0 is bad (seen a thread in this forum and lots of people yelled at it becuase theres no memory recovery or something) so you may want to look into that. but for your question im not sure about the size of the hd's u need, i just know that u need 2 identical sata hard drives (i think, but im not very comp smart so i may be wrong) praetor or the mods will clear this up

 

[Yeti]

i wanna get two HD's so i can put them in RAID 0, about how much space would i need on each HD about 80 or what?

It depends on how much space you want. I have 2 80 GB HDDs in RAID0 and its more than enough for me. I also have two large storage drives because I don't trust any important data on the RAID volume.

 

[redrider13]

then maybe i'll go with RAID1 and two 120 GB HD's

 

[deathbysunshine]

then maybe i'll go with RAID1 and two 120 GB HD's

i guess so, why dont u put a new thread somewhere about raid because i heard there was a raid 5 too.

 

[j0hn00]

i guess so, why dont u put a new thread somewhere about raid because i heard there was a raid 5 too.

http://www.acnc.com/04_01_05.html

 

[redrider13]

isn't that the same as 1+0

 

[Cromewell]

no, RAID0+1 is a pair of striped HDs mirrored onto another pair of HDs. RAID5 allows for the failure of 1 HD without losing any data (2 dying at the same time and all is lost).

 

[Yeti]

RAID5 also isn't supported natively by most motherboards.