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To RAID or not to RAID

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Blayze

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that is the question 🙂

anyway I am currently using a 13.6 gig Maxtor 7,200 rpm ATA 66 drive and I am thinking of getting a new bigger drive.
My question is would it be wise to go with a Raid setup?
How much faster is it over one 7,200 rpm disk.
Harddrive prices are going down so I thought it would be a good time to pick up some new drives and maybe try raid out.
only thing is I run WinME, 2000 doesn't work with all of my stuff yet 🙁
would this be a problem?
also could anyone recommend a nice setup for 2 drives in raid?
 
I was considering RAID, but from what I have read it is not worth it unless you run windows 2000 or NT.

RAID striped sound fast but doubles your chances of data loss. Haven't heard if anyone has successfully ghosted and restore a RAID Partition yet.
 
Assuming you mean stripe raid and not mirror.

Probably not worth it for performance, money is better spent on one ultra fast drive rather than two mediocre ones and raiding it. RAID only speeds up transfer rates, which doesn't really improve system responsiveness, where as a fast single drive will most likely have a lower access time, which does make a difference in responsiveness. Also, keep in mind the cost of two slow drives and even a hacked raid controller is probably more than that of a good single drive. Unless of course, you want to get it just for the novelty and bragging rights, in which case, your call 🙂
 

I think it depends on how you use your PC. If you do a lot of HDD-intensive stuff then a RAID 0, with proper backup, could be a big help, although RAID's with striping or parity would help less. If you don't run HDD-intensive apps, then RAID is not so beneficial.

BTW, with overclocking getting so mainstream these days at least setting up a RAID is a little more intellectually interesting.

IAE, be sure you have adequate CPU and enough RAM before you spend a lot of money on HDD's and RAID controller cards.

 
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