Alright, I have never done a RAID setup before, but I have come into some extra drives and I was thinking about setting up RAID on my new gaming rig.
Say I have 3 drives, a 160, a 300, and either another 300 or a smaller drive, but it would be no smaller than 160. All 7200 rpm. All drives are totally blank.
The motherboard would be either ASUS M2N32-SLI (unless there is a better AM2 board out there) or a ASUS P5N32-E
So, let's hope for the best and say that I hook up the 3 drives and all the hardware, I turn it on, it posts, all is well. What has to happen before I can install both XP pro and Vista (and possibly Ubuntu) on a RAID 5 array? Do I put all the drives into an array and then I partition that array into logical drives that I install my OSes onto? What if I want to add a drive to the array for more space? If I drive fails, what is the procedure for replacing it so that your OSes are not broken?
I guess I ultimately would like to use a raid setup so that I have some fault-tollerance without having to waste a drive as a mirror, and get a performance increase in read/write times. I guess I just have a lot of "practical" questions that were not answered in the FAQ.
Say I have 3 drives, a 160, a 300, and either another 300 or a smaller drive, but it would be no smaller than 160. All 7200 rpm. All drives are totally blank.
The motherboard would be either ASUS M2N32-SLI (unless there is a better AM2 board out there) or a ASUS P5N32-E
So, let's hope for the best and say that I hook up the 3 drives and all the hardware, I turn it on, it posts, all is well. What has to happen before I can install both XP pro and Vista (and possibly Ubuntu) on a RAID 5 array? Do I put all the drives into an array and then I partition that array into logical drives that I install my OSes onto? What if I want to add a drive to the array for more space? If I drive fails, what is the procedure for replacing it so that your OSes are not broken?
I guess I ultimately would like to use a raid setup so that I have some fault-tollerance without having to waste a drive as a mirror, and get a performance increase in read/write times. I guess I just have a lot of "practical" questions that were not answered in the FAQ.
