RAID Question

[TheOriginalAndyK]

My 8K7A+ should arrive tomorrow, I would like to run my 2 IBM GXP60 41gb 7200 drives under Raid0 (striping) so I get a performance boost, I also have a 30gb 7200 Maxtor that I use for backup, I am hoping that I can use fdisk to partition the new RAID Array to have a 30gb partition for downloads etc, is this possible (will fdisk partition a 2-disk raid array?)

Cheers

Andy

 

[Tschaft]

yes, once you setup your array, fdisk will see it as one 80gb drive, then you should be able to partition it like any other drive.

 

[TheOriginalAndyK]

Thank you, will partitioning the array slow it down at all?

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Partitioning the array will not slow it down at all. It will simply create a half size partition on each of the drives and then when you read/write to that partition it will put half in each of the half size partitions. It will work just like a partitioned single drive, just faster.

 

[TheOriginalAndyK]

Excellent, just what I wanted to hear, will I notice a real difference with the raid? (have just 1 GXP60 41gb at the moment)

 

[Tschaft]

Partitioning ussually makes it a bit faster. I like to limit my paritions to 4 gbs each...but I dont use much space. You will be able to tell a difference either way, but how much depends on what you do. If you do alot of file transfering or anything heavy on the hdd you will definatly see a huge increase. But if you just do everyday stuff, you will be able to tell a bit of a difference(atleast I did) but not a huge increase.