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Can i use these HDD in RAID ?

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phpdog

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Hi ,

I have 2 x 80Gb Maxtor SATA HDD 7200rpm and 1 x 120Gb Maxtor SATA HDD 7200rpm , and i was wondering if i could set any these disks up in RAID ?

I have an Abit AV8 3rd Eye Motherboard and AMD 64 3200+ Winchester

My motherboard has 2 x SATA 150 RAID 0 and RAID 1 capable ports.

Ive never set up any disks in a RAID configuration before so any help would be much appriciated 🙂

BTW ... would i get a performance boost , and will i have to format my HDD and start fresh ?


Thank You
 
Im not sure if you can use both those drives in a RAID 1 or 0 setup, but you could do it in a JBOD if your mobo supports it. This basically takes all your hard drives and makes them look like one drive to the operating system, so it would lists drive C as a 200 gb drive in your case, not as two drives, one with 80gb capacity and one with 120gb capacity.
You would get no real performance boost with raid, and you would have to reinstall the OS to get it working.
 
RAID-1 will give you No performance boost, while RAID-0 will mainly help when transfering large files. Otherwise, not much use to it. The 2x80's you have, will probably work if you wanted to give it a try (check and make sure they are identical model numbers though). Keep in mind that if you use RAID-0 and either one of your hdd's gets corrupted or damaged, then you will lose ALL data on the RAID setup.
 
If you want to do RAID0 but you do not have a RAID card then you can set up RAID0 (Stripping) via software in windows XP, XP can not be on the RAID0, you would have to install XP on the 120. You can setup software RAID0 by right clicking on my computer and then select disk management, right click on one of the 80's and select CONVERT TO DYANAMIC, once you do that to both 80's. right click on the empty space and then create new volume, from there you will have the option to setup stripping.

RAID0 offers little performance gain, but if you arent fiddling with mission critical data then it will be fine, like dude above me said "Keep in mind that if you use RAID-0 and either one of your hdd's gets corrupted or damaged, then you will lose ALL data on the RAID setup. " is true, but if you have 2 80's then why the hell not.

Hope this helps.

http://www.midwestdatarecovery.../raid-array-types.html

RAID0/1 hardware has to be setup when the RAID0 controller checks in most cases, not sure with your mobo though.
 
Thanks for all the help , I think i'll give it a try .

I dont have anything MAJOR important on this system , this is basically my overclocking performance system to playgames and benchmark so if any HDD were currupted it wouldnt really matter as i keep all mp3/movie and other media files etc on a seperete FS system.

I really just wanted to try it and see if it affected any of my benchmarks and see if there was any performance gain .


Do you know if SuSe or Fedora Core 3 can be installed on a 2 disk RAID setup ?
 
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