help with a hard drive rumor

Daemon

Daemon

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i have 2 WD blue 500 gig Hds @ 7200rpm

nothing special by most peoples means, but, they work for me
now i have been told many things about raid 0 and other things u can do with
HDDs, here are my questions

1. what IS running a Raid configure, and 2 does it make your performance go up?
and 3.

i was told that i should make all windows files on 1 partition, games on another and music/media on yet another partition, making the read faster in the long
run because of less defrags needed

once again im a newbie to HDDs in specific, thanks for the help all =D
 
1) RAID 0 is running two identical drives, and it shares data between the drives.

Basically it puts some stuff on one drive and other stuff on another drive,
but not the same stuff on both, which eliminates a bottleneck of putting all the data on one drive...

2) Thus increasing performance. But, if one drive goes bad, you lose everything.

3) Not sure about the partition info.

Wiki has some great info on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
 
wow, thanks for the fast response, ill do my research, now the drives have to be identical, as in storage size ect.
 
The drives should be identical to get the best performance. However, as far as partitions and what to put on them.

I use the theory of putting the OS and apps/games on one partition and personal data on a second partition. That way if you ever have to reformat/reinstall windows, all your personal data is on a separate partition.
 
i have a 500g and a 320, both 7200 rpm WD blue, thought i had 2 500s, but i was wrong XD

i am giving one to the wife tho lol, just built her new computer last night, waiting for the monitor to arrive tomorrow, my computer was just updated

i went from 2 diamond 4670s to 2 sapphire 5770s, i wont need new cards for a long time

because the games i play arent hard on graphics, nor do i even crank them
i just enjoy fast interfaces and no spikes
 
Daemon said:
wow, thanks for the fast response, ill do my research, now the drives have to be identical, as in storage size ect.
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Identical in every way possible. Same brand, size, and model, for best performance.

I've never used an array, but I've wanted to, and have done a bit of research in the past, so I don't know first hand, only conceptually. :o
 
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