RAID Question

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Hey..

It's possible to do RAID with 4 hard drives, 2 10k rpm and 2 7200rpm right?
Also..what is best configuration raid for this set up?

Want to use the 10k's speed...and the 7200rpm's hard drives for the storage.
0+5 the best? Or 0+10?
Or just raid 10? Or maybe just raid 5?

Please help...and also how to set that up?
:o
 
no the disks have to be they same, same size, same cache, same speed.
it depending on why you want to set up RAID in the first place, RAID 0 for speed boost, RAID 1 for data back-up (normal only good for servers) and RAID 10 for both 0 and 1, so you cant use 5 and 10, (im quite sure you cant).
if you mobo supports RAID then look in the manual, it will tell you in there, if not then you need a RAID card to go in a PCI port.
 
It accepts 0, 1, and 10..
So 10 is 0+1 basically?..

What is the + mean ?...
Grr...I have two of the same HDD and two of the same hard drive..
I wanted to do RAID 0 with the 10k rpm ones and then use the other ones for the capacity, how can I do this? :(
 
if you have, for example, two 250Gb, SATAII, 7200RPM 16Mb cache HDD then connect then to you mobo as normal, go into your BIOS and find the RAID menu, then enable RAID and tell into what ports you have the drive connected to (e.g. 1 and 2), then save and reboot, when the computer does it's system checks it will flash somewhere on the screen to set up RAID (for me i press F10 after post screen but it may be different for you, once its gone into a setting menu, tell it which drive to enable RAID and then set it as a boot, it will then go to a second menu for set type of RAID, for RAID 0 chose stripped, for RAID 1 go mirror, for both go stripped and mirror, save and reboot. you will need to format and reinstall windows or linux once you have set up RAID.

let me know if you want a vid and ill post it on youtube.
 
Intel_man said:
RAID 5 is awesome when you have 3 or more harddrives.
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I am running it right now, but I don't care for it. The performance is not the best. Yea it is nice if one drive fails I can just put one in there again, but the difference between 0 and this is just too great to justify it. I am probably going to buy a 1tb external and just run all 4 in raid 0 instead.
 
My Intel SB, (ICH9R), supports up to six HDDs in RAID configurations, though the manual doesn’t state if there is a speed advantage using six as opposed to two drives in RAID 0 configuration. But with six drives, (it does state identical drives), you have the option to use the Matrix Storage Technology that allows two partitions on each drive and multiple RAID configurations at the same time so that you could have RAID 0 for your operating system and RAID 1 or 5 for storage, or whatever combination you chose. Sounds like fun to play with, but I only have four drives so I’m using 0 + 1. My manual indicates that the only configuration you can use with different size drives is RAID 1 with the useable RAID volume being that of the smaller drive.
 
EGS said:
How many hard drives can you have in RAID 0? And the more the faster?..
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You can have as many as your Raid controller can handle. And yes the more you have in Raid 0 the faster the performance. It does not scale tho meaning having 4 drives would not be double the speed of 2. The only thing is with more comes a higher chance of failure. But that's the price you pay to have over 300mb/s read.
 
THERMAL-REACTOR said:
You can have as many as your Raid controller can handle. And yes the more you have in Raid 0 the faster the performance. It does not scale tho meaning having 4 drives would not be double the speed of 2. The only thing is with more comes a higher chance of failure. But that's the price you pay to have over 300mb/s read.
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yup your right, but if you dont wanna lose your data but still want RAID 0, just set up RAID 10 :D
 
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