Raptor 70 gig on RAID alone?

[MurdarMachene]

For technical details, my system specs:

400 watt psu
WD Raptor 70 gig 10k rpm SATA
WD Raptor 34 gig 10k rpm SATA (neither HD is on RAID)
Athlon XP 3400+ clawhammer
Asus K8n-e deulxe mobo
1 gig of ocz industries platinum rev. 2 pc3200 ddr ram
Powercolor radeon x800 pro 256 mb gfx card
ASUS 16x dvd rom



I was wondering if I could use RAID 0 on just one of my hard drives for a free speed boost. I heard that you can plug just one into RAID and one on normal SATA for better speed.

Second question: Can I put both those on RAID?

 

[Darth Farter]

raid = 2 or more drives
1 is impossible for raid.
cross controller (drive on ide+drive on sata) raid is impossible (except nforce4 mobo!)


q#2: yes, both drives CAN be setup on a raid0 or raid1. in your case however your gonna end up with 34+34=78gigabytes space, (NOT: 34+70=100!!)

for raid it is only really good using identical drives. (I myself use 2 120GB wd caviars in raid0)

 

[SrGuapo]

No, you cannot RAID one drive to itself (physically impossible). See my quick explination below...

I would skip the RAID. In theory, you could RAID 0 both those drives, but it would only be the same size as the 70GB one anyway.

The way RAID 0 works, is it can be reading/writing some of the data to both hard drives simultaneously (The data is broken into "strips" and each strip is written to a different drive). This means with two drives, there is a theoretical 2x speed bost in readingwriting. In the real world, however, there is only a few percent boost in speed. Also, in a RAID 0 array, if one of the drives fail, all your information is lost.

 

[MurdarMachene]

Thanks for the answers, dudes.