IDE VS. Raid which is better

[icanseeyou]

which is better for speed and/or proformance?


i am new and havnt look much into raid, but just wonder would 1 ide hard be better then 2 raid drives

 

[DieHardware]

which is better for speed and/or proformance?

SCSI RAID.

 

[icanseeyou]

i have ide raid on my mobo and was wonder if i should stay with my Western digitial 60gig 5400rpm hard drive or go with 2 hards raid

 

[DieHardware]

You might also consider a raptor or 7,200RPM drive for OS/apps and keep the 5,400 for storage.

 

[icanseeyou]

i can do raid with different size hard drive

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: DieHardware
You might also consider a raptor or 7,200RPM drive for OS/apps and keep the 5,400 for storage.

raptor is sata though

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: icanseeyou
i can do raid with different size hard drive

Generally Nope....I think there is a chance you might be able to but you would have to format the larger driver to the smaller capacity so it becomes a waste really.

IDE = Standard speed & redundancy, if the drive fails...you lose everything on that drive.
RAID Mirrored = increased redundancy but slightly slower speed....if one drive fails, you have a backup.
RAID Striped = increased speed but if one drive fails, you lose everything.

Jamie

 

[Bug]

TheCorm nailed it. I had the same problem when building a Raid array from a 100gb and a 120gb. The Raid array would only see 100gb; didn't get the full 120gb until I broke the array and rebuilt the array with a 2nd 120gb drive.

 

IDE = Standard speed & redundancy, if the drive fails...you lose everything on that drive.
RAID Mirrored = increased redundancy but slightly slower speed....if one drive fails, you have a backup.
RAID Striped = increased speed but if one drive fails, you lose everything.

RAID-1, mirrored, does increase speed over normal ide but you sacrifice an entire HDD of space
RAID-0, striped, also increases speed over normal ide but you sacrifice data security

Any RAID array increases read performance as now you have two read heads working simultaneosly
but RAID-0 also increases write speeds because the head also write different things simultaneously too while RAID-1 is just as fast as normal IDE at writing because the write heads imitate each other.