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Help with picking RAID array

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moosey

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I have 2 40gb HDDs. I wanted faster performance in games and when things load and in transfers between drives. Which raid array would be best? Also, are there any constraints like all drives have to be partitioned into equal sizes? I also want to ensure that my data is not lost or made more succeptable to loss. Thanks
 
RAID is NOT the way to go for gaming.
RAID-0 give you about a 25% - 30% faster write to drive speed as one bank of drives is quequeing while the other writes,
then they swap functions kind of like page 1 goes here - page 2 goes there, and pg.3, pg.4, etc.
However if you loose any information from either drive you have lost ALL information from bothe - it cannot reassemble without total data.
RAID-1 is a mirror where it copies the same to both drives at the same time, giving you a duplicate backup copy.
RAID-0/1 combines both functions, speed and backup, but you need 4 harddrives.
 
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