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RAID 0 Striping question

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TheSHANK

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So if you have 2 80 gigs making a raid 0, so 160 gb total. Then when you FDISK, can you make say 4 drives out of that raid? or does that lower performance a little and i should create 1 big drive?

 
What a coincidence. I have the same exact setup 🙂. I forget though, is 0 stripe or mirror? I'm guessing stripe, which is what I use (you did say 160 total 🙂 ). I recommend you just partition it in windows. I don't think DOS properly recognizes raid setups. As for the speed reasoning. I've seen tests where raid setups actually outperform a hard drive of the same combined size.
 
wait wait I don't know if you misunderstood me. I am going to setup the 2 HD for striping as raid 0. Not mirror. Now after you create the raid, you can create a partition rite.. Now I am confused where are you supposed to create 1 big 160gb partition, or can u create many partitions and not lose speed?
 
I've got two WD 80's that I RAIDed together. 160GB total, but I set my "Active Partition" on the larger drive. 😱
If I wasn't so lazy I'd go back and redo the whole thing. Wait a minute... I will... this week... sometime...

Anyway, I doubt that you even detect any speed difference (without benchmarking), by partitioning the drive up. Just make it a 10-90% or 20-80% if you load a bunch of stuff to your Windows partition.
 
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