Some reviews said something about Level-1 raid damaged or killed their hard drives. Im just wondering because Im planning on setting two 250gb hard drives into a level 1 raid array and a little worried about the life time.
And if I do install it as a raid. Will the drive appear as one hard drive? or two? because I have hard drive monitoring software running scans to check my drive's life.
2007-01-15 22:15:38 · 2 answers · asked by rhkenji 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Raid lvl 0/1 is a speed boosting architecture that stores multiple copies of the same files on multiple disks. Typically once you have built the array, the OS will see the drives as a single drive as far as space constraints are concerned for in reality, in a two drive array, every file is duplicated on each of the drives. This will not reduce the rated life of the HDD, nor will it cause any damage.
2007-01-15 23:32:48 · answer #1 · answered by Louis 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The life time is not reduced,
Simple
If anyone says anything other than that there lying
2007-01-16 06:21:01 · answer #2 · answered by pringle147963 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋