RAID 0+1 ?

[kvrr79]

Hi,

I would like to know about RAID 0+1 feature. Is it wise to have that feature on Desktop. This featureis offered in GIGABYTE "GA-K8NF-9" NVIDIA nForce4 4X Chipset socket 939. How is the performance of this board ?

Thanks,
kvrr79

 

[amol]

raid 0 = striping two drives, cutting data into two equal parts and putting them on two seperate drives & they act like one

raid 1 = mirroring two drives, cloning data into two parts and putting them on two seperate disks

raid 0 +1 = stripes the drives first, then mirrors it onto two other drives

so 4 Hard drives needed

and im not familiar with the nForce4 4x, only ultras and SLIs

 

[DerwenArtos12]

The NF4 - 4x is basicaly teh vanilla NF4. Not a bad chipset for the budget minded person who wants PCI-E. Amol is absolutely right in his definitions. There are two things I really need to point out about raid though.
1. Ther performance increase from Raid 0 (striping) is minimal in a destop enviroment.
2. If one of your HDD's fail on a Raid 0 array then you are the definition of SOL. All the data is GONE.

IMHO your best bet for both performance and data security is this: get 3 HDD's. One ~80GB for your boot drive, keep windows and your progams on this one, then 2x 250GB 16MB cache and put them into RAID 1. that will give you 250GB of fast HDDs to store all your really important stuff on, and have an exact duplicate incase somethign goes wrong. Windows installation are replaceable, all your pictures and your music is much much harder if not impossible to replace.