RAID

Discussion in 'Tech' started by hans5849, Dec 13, 2009.

  1. hans5849 Serious as a heart attack

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    So I have 2 WDC 250GB HDD's. Right now I am using 1 450GB. Do you guys think I should setup RAID and compare the results? I would need some help setting up benchmarking crap.

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    Windows 7 Ultimate w/ Readyboost 8GB drive
    hans5849, Dec 13, 2009
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  2. Jamsan Junior Member

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    What kind of RAID are you looking to run? These are the only options you have with 2 disks:

    RAID 0 will give you better performance, but a single drive failure will cause the whole array to go.

    RAID 1 will give you availability and fault tolerance, but will cut your total storage in half (250GB in your case) and performance will suffer a bit.
    Jamsan, Dec 14, 2009
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  3. deliciouscake New Member

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    You can rebuild a striped RAID if you have four (or more) drives.

    ...but he only has two. A slight problem.
    deliciouscake, Dec 14, 2009
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  4. SoulAssassin Car Ramrod

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    Fixed...but what's the point of this post?
    SoulAssassin, Dec 15, 2009
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  5. Jamsan Junior Member

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    Are you saying you can rebuild a RAID 0 array, or a striped array (something other than RAID 0 - say RAID 5, striped, but w/ parity)?
    Jamsan, Dec 15, 2009
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  6. hans5849 Serious as a heart attack

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    I think he intended RAID 5. I was thinking a RAID 0 array.
    hans5849, Dec 16, 2009
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  7. GOG427 Free Mustache Rides...

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    Heres a question? Can you raid 2 hard drive with same size capacity, But different cashe size 16mb and 32mb?
    GOG427, Dec 17, 2009
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  8. tex jive turkey

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    yep. there can be a small performance hit (the controller will have to wait on drive A if drive B has the stuff in its cache) but it should be negligable
    tex, Dec 17, 2009
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