RAID0...is it safe and how often will it crash?

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OK, I am running out of room on my 80GB. I'm planing to install about 3-4 games in a few weeks. Thats about 15 GB now a days. I only have 2.9 GB left. now, adding another MAxtor Diomon Max 10 80GB only cost me $40, but the big factor here is, "is it safe?" About on a sclase of 1-10, will it crash over a little or long span of time. 1 being "no, you would have to be really unlucky for that to ever happen" and 10 being "yeah you use than and your pritty much screwed..." any good help would be much apprishiated.
 
Why not just use it as a second drive and for get the raid? Unless you have a newer nvidia RAID controller all your data on your drive will be lost.

Anyway, RAID0 with 2 drives more or less doubles the chance of critical failure.
 
ADE said:
:eek: OK then, f**k the RAID. thanks guys.
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But if you think about it, how often does a hard drive actually fail? Obviously it happens since it's a mechanical device, but I have used the same hard drive in some of my PC's for several years without a problem.

Or you could go with RAID5 I believe, which is a combination of RAID0 and RAID1.
 
who here actually has anything on their hard drive that's that important?

and if you DO, whether you're running RAID or not, you should be doing backups anyways
 
Speaking from experience, the more likely cause of faliure of a Raid0, rather than it being the drive itself failing, is a disloged cable while the computer is running. If you want to run a Raid0, it's always best having a third disk for important backups, or if you don't have one, burn some data dvd's.
 
^^^ so your telling me that the whole computer can die just from a lose wire?! WTF? I'm scared or RAID now...why do RAID 5? I only wanted RAID0 to upgrade memory, I'd rather just buy a 160GB HDD cuz RAID0 doesnt improve preformance...
 
whoa now, raid0 improves performance, read times, just not seek time

and besides, if there was NO risk associated with it, what would be the point? :)

grow some balls and do it
 
ADE said:
^^^ so your telling me that the whole computer can die just from a lose wire?! WTF? I'm scared or RAID now...why do RAID 5? I only wanted RAID0 to upgrade memory, I'd rather just buy a 160GB HDD cuz RAID0 doesnt improve preformance...
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The Raid0 works because both drives are reading and writing at the same time. When one drive gets accidentally unplugged, it throws them out of synch, and you lose the data. Raid0 usually doesn't improve performance in games, but in other situations it does.
 
ADE said:
^^^ so your telling me that the whole computer can die just from a lose wire?! WTF? I'm scared or RAID now...why do RAID 5? I only wanted RAID0 to upgrade memory, I'd rather just buy a 160GB HDD cuz RAID0 doesnt improve preformance...
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There are so many more dangerous things that can happen to a PC, like dropping a screw underneath the motherboard, which could destroy it, or having an extra power cable inside touch a pc component.
 
When you say lose data, do you mean ALL of it or just the stuff you were currently working on?
 
Honestly, how many times has a cable falling out of a hard drive when its just on your desk? The likelyhood of something happening to the drives is very small, and if you backup your data regularly, then it wont be that big of a deal.
 
ADE said:
When you say lose data, do you mean ALL of it or just the stuff you were currently working on?
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All of it, your files, programs, operating system, everything. Stuff you're currently working on is stored in your RAM, when you save it it's moved to the hard drive.

You shouldn't get hung up on whether it's risky - there's no risk if you have a backup of everything that's irreplacable. Your OS can be reinstalled, games can be put back on, it's only documents, music etc that need to be backed up. And that's a good habit to get into even if you only have one drive - it can fail as well, you know.
 
..........OK, I'm forgetting the RAID...My cables fall out every now and then...How many of you guys use RAID0?
 
ADE said:
..........OK, I'm forgetting the RAID...My cables fall out every now and then...How many of you guys use RAID0?
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You're saying that your power and data cables fall out of the hard drive all the time? If it did then you would most likely have corrupted data or a destoryed hard drive, it's not only RAID thats effected.
 
What do you mean, something like RAID 0+1 or RAID 1?
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I read somewhere (Anandtech I think) that the new nvidia RAID manager copies the data from one drive to the other when you RAID them.
 
I go and add things to my computer internally about, well, more than once a week. I do a LOT of modding and I have some more parts on the way. Then once there are here its back to opening it back up, taking out the old Northbridge heat sink, adding the new one, then using a different case, then adding the X-Fi, then the all in one card reading, then better cooling, all in about, oh, say, 1-2 months. Oh yeah, that's only some of the parts coming.
 
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