If you run 2 8MB Buffer HDD's in RAID will it make one big 16MB Buffer?

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Just wondering. The RAID where it makes 2 HDD's run as one. I forgot what its called.....IS RAID safe?
 
I separate it to answer individual questions...

Question one: whats it is called: Striping/RAID-0
Question two: Will it work: It should, but I haven't done so before.
 
Any RAID makes x hard drives appear as one but Kusama is probably right in thinking you are talking about a RAID 0.

Is RAID safe? RAID 0 isn't because if one drive fails you lose everything.
 
the best option for speed and backup would be a raid 5, which essentially takes two of your HDD's and makes thema raid 0, and then takes a third one as a backup, so if one of your drives fail, you can install a new one and be ok. :)

basically you have the speed of raid 0, and the security of raid 1
 
Froboy7391_99 said:
Could you do a Raid 1(the one where it makes a copy of everything on another HDD?) of a pair of Raid 0? Meaning yo have four HDD's
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flash527 said:
the best option for speed and backup would be a raid 5, which essentially takes two of your HDD's and makes thema raid 0, and then takes a third one as a backup, so if one of your drives fail, you can install a new one and be ok. :)

basically you have the speed of raid 0, and the security of raid 1
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Exactly what he said :)
 
flash527 said:
the best option for speed and backup would be a raid 5, which essentially takes two of your HDD's and makes thema raid 0, and then takes a third one as a backup, so if one of your drives fail, you can install a new one and be ok. :)

basically you have the speed of raid 0, and the security of raid 1
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so with my two raptors in raid 0 which equals like 69gigs, what HD would i need to back them up in RAID 5? does it just need to be bigger than 69 gigs? or could i even partition a section of my WD 200 gig HD that is used for storage for the RAID 5?
 
Boomer said:
so with my two raptors in raid 0 which equals like 69gigs, what HD would i need to back them up in RAID 5? does it just need to be bigger than 69 gigs? or could i even partition a section of my WD 200 gig HD that is used for storage for the RAID 5?
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If you use a different speed drive, I have a feeling you would loose alot of performance, because everytime something is written to the Raptors, it also has to be copied to the slower regular SATA drive.
 
[-0MEGA-];526328 said:
Froboy7391_99 said:
Could you do a Raid 1(the one where it makes a copy of everything on another HDD?) of a pair of Raid 0? Meaning yo have four HDD's
Click to expand...

flash527 said:
the best option for speed and backup would be a raid 5, which essentially takes two of your HDD's and makes thema raid 0, and then takes a third one as a backup, so if one of your drives fail, you can install a new one and be ok.
Click to expand...

basically you have the speed of raid 0, and the security of raid 1
Exactly what he said :)
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No, that RAID is called a RAID10/01/0+1/etc. RAID 5 uses 1/# drives (a fraction of the size of one disk) for backing up the other drives so you can lose 1 drive and still be able to get your data but if you lose 2 you're done, and you need at least 3 drives for it.
 
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