Howdy!
I've got a few pretty basic questions on a RAID 0 setup I've been thinking of doing for the performance benefits. First, I'm thinking of 2 80g 7200rpm drives, but I'm kind if hung up on one of the very foundations of RAID... from what I understand, once I put them in the array, I'll end up with one monstrous 160g partition. Uh... NOT what I'm looking for.
Right now I've got an 80g partitioned into a 40 and 2 20s, which gives me plenty of space & drive options for stuff I don't want to lose in my frequent formats. A single 160g partition seems to be not only an unweildy amount of space, but a waste of valuable non-bootdrive realestate should I wish to keep my habit of reinstalling Windows every 2 months or so. I don't feel like copying 17gigs of mp3 backups to the drive every time Windows needs to be put down.
My questions: Is it possible to partition the RAID'ed drive? Can I make it multiple striped 40g partitions, for example? Or can I make the controller not take the whole drive, say only 30gigs of each drive? Can I install the current 80 I have onto my mobo's controller & use that as a data drive? Obviously I don't want to use that drive as my boot... is it just a matter of doing something similar to setting an active DOS partition on the RAID'ed array?
As you can see, I'm a complete newbie at this... am I way off base? I'm not looking for mirroring, strictly a performance gain in sustained data transfer. Suggestions, anyone?
Thanks!! 🙂
I've got a few pretty basic questions on a RAID 0 setup I've been thinking of doing for the performance benefits. First, I'm thinking of 2 80g 7200rpm drives, but I'm kind if hung up on one of the very foundations of RAID... from what I understand, once I put them in the array, I'll end up with one monstrous 160g partition. Uh... NOT what I'm looking for.
Right now I've got an 80g partitioned into a 40 and 2 20s, which gives me plenty of space & drive options for stuff I don't want to lose in my frequent formats. A single 160g partition seems to be not only an unweildy amount of space, but a waste of valuable non-bootdrive realestate should I wish to keep my habit of reinstalling Windows every 2 months or so. I don't feel like copying 17gigs of mp3 backups to the drive every time Windows needs to be put down.
My questions: Is it possible to partition the RAID'ed drive? Can I make it multiple striped 40g partitions, for example? Or can I make the controller not take the whole drive, say only 30gigs of each drive? Can I install the current 80 I have onto my mobo's controller & use that as a data drive? Obviously I don't want to use that drive as my boot... is it just a matter of doing something similar to setting an active DOS partition on the RAID'ed array?
As you can see, I'm a complete newbie at this... am I way off base? I'm not looking for mirroring, strictly a performance gain in sustained data transfer. Suggestions, anyone?
Thanks!! 🙂
