• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

noob question: can you partition a raid 0 setup?

S

Sensai

Senior member
im thinking about getting 2 36 or 74 raptors for the OS and application performance... but i really dont need that much space for raid 0 configuration... i want to partition 40 gig of that for system and OS...and the rest as a media drive for music, vids, and cd images. Is it possible and is there anything bad about doing this? thanks
 
If you are using hardware raid then the OS will see it like a single drive and you can do whatever you want with it. Partition or dont.

When using multiple drives it's kinda nice to have a smaller drive for OS and a separate larger drive for apps and data. If you are just looking at a single drive I would just recommend keeping a single partition. I'm running to 74gig raptors in a raid0 array. Single partition. Compared to other drives I own the raptors are pretty tiny (I didn't get them for their size 😛 ). Even paired up you're only getting 138GB of useable space. You partition that up and I guarantee at some point you'll get tight on one of the partitions and wish you hadn't.
 
yeh all i need is like 40 gb of space..... the rest of the space for media..... cuz i already have another 160 and 120 maxtors for media.... all i want is a performance primary drive using motherboard raid....otherwise i will have a lot of space left on the raptors... thanks!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top