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I am so raidtarded.

shilala

shilala

Lifer
I asked a question at General Hardware but didn't get a reply.
I figured, "Teach a man to fish", so I'll do the reading.
I googled and the topic is too broad for my lack of experience, so I need a little help getting started.
Where's a good place to read up on setting up a raid array?

Paranoia driven disclaimer:
I just need info on where to go from ATOT's vast outhouse of wisdom. I figured it's a general request that fits a number of forums. Since OT obviously has the most concentrated collection of intelligence, beauty and wit, I figured this was the place to go 🙂
 
It the weekend, the geeks are out enjoying themselves, and will respond on Monday.

Hmm, on second thought, geeks dont have lives, so where the hell are they??? 😛
 
Originally posted by: shilala
I asked a question at General Hardware but didn't get a reply.
I figured, "Teach a man to fish", so I'll do the reading.
I googled and the topic is too broad for my lack of experience, so I need a little help getting started.
Where's a good place to read up on setting up a raid array?
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I couldn't tell you who might have a step-by-step (well actually Tom's Hardware might) but you should check out the forums (I think it's the "community" tab or something even more non-intuitive) at storagereview.com
I have 2-160GB Hdd's and want to add a pair of 200GB's.
I have a Maxtor 133 ATA card and a pair of Maxtor Hdd's.
I'm guessing XP will pick up the card and hard drives as soon as I fire up.
Can I set these monkeybumpers up on raid?
I'm admittedly raidtarded.
My hope was to set them up to speed up my load times on games and apps. I'll just reinstall them on those drives.
I don't have any raid drivers installed, but my mobo supports it and there's settings in my bios for it.
Suggestions?
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If your MB supports RAID, you will have 2 RIDE slots and 2 IDE slots The two drives you want to use for RAID, you plug one each into the RIDE and set as master (no slaves on those lines) Set RAID 0 in the BIOS, and use the setup function (either in the BIOS or a ctrl-<key> interrupt that will flash shortly after POST) The other two drives leave on the primary and secondary IDE channels (or your ATA card) and don't get RAIDed (unless the ATA card also supports RAID or you want to RAID them in XP)
It is highly likely that you will notice no performance improvement, or if you do, it will be slight (do not expect 2x faster loading etc.) and of course, your reliability will be halved (if one drive dies, the whole install gets hosed). Also you may want to consider RAID 1. It will halve your drivespace, and writes may slow down a little bit, but it doubles your reliability, and should offer the same read time increases that RAID 0 will.
If performance is your goal, you would be better off trading two of those drives for a single Raptor.
 
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