Is it possible

charles624

charles624

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I might try this if someone says its possible.

Lets say someone buys 4 1TB hardrives, would it be possible to put two of these HDD in Raid 0 and put that setup in Raid 1 with the remaining two HDD.

It would make your HDD seeking times faster and if one would break you would still have the other HDD as a backup. Because I know in Raid 0 if one breaks you lose all and I don't want that :P.

So any input would be appreciated :)
 
What you're describing (Two sets of 2 striped-arrays mirroring each other) is raid 1+0 or Raid-10.

Alternatively, you could take the same 4 drives, and put them in a RAID-5, which would yield a 3TB (rather than 2TB) array, which will continue to operate in the event of any single disc crashing.

I wouldn't recommend attempting a RAID-5 without a hardware based RAID controller, tho. The parity creation and redundancy introduces a LOT of overhead for a software-based controller, and would yield terrible performance.

So:

RAID-10 = 2TB / RAID-5 = 3TB from the same disks.
 
Raid 5 is great, i would recommend raid 5 over raid 0+1, raid 5 requires a minimum of 3 drives, and gives you storage capacity of all the drives, minus the capacity of one drive. So 3x1TB= 2TB, 4x1TB=3TB, etc.
 
your motherboard has onboard raid 0/1/5/10

you likely need to enable raid in the bios, and then there should be a raid segment added to the boot screen

for instance, my raid controller (intel matrix) must be enabled in the motherboard bios

then, upon boot-up there's an additional raid status screen, and i press control+i to go to the raid configuration screen.

windows will need to be reinstalled
 
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