I have just installed 2 hard drives on my machine?

Question

how do i configure them to be a stripe set? what is this?

Answer 1

A stripe set is otherwise known as RAID 0 - not a true RAID in fact as there is no redundancy, if you stipe the disks like this, then if either drive fails, ALL data is lost.

RAID = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives
Striping is where a byte of data is split over two or more disks - to increase read and/or write speed and/or to help with redundancy.

RAID 1 is mirroring - where both drives are a perfect backup of the other.

To do either of these, you will need either a hardware RAID card and identical drive sizes OR you can do it with software - sometimes built into the motherboards BIOS see manual - and at other times, you can set aside just a tiny amount for booting, then have the rest of the drives striped to give you a software RAID system. Software systems can sometimes use non-identical drive sizes IF being used in the "JBOD" mode - "just a bunch of disks" - otherwise, with hardware RAID, ALL drives area treated as if they are the size of the smallest one - if it works at all.

RAID can work with IDE, SATA and SCSI drives, the cheapest these days is IDE or SATA but the fastest and most readily "RAIDed" is SCSI. Most home PC's will use IDE or SATA. SATA is the newest type and has a realtively small socket - whereas the IDE drives have a much larger rubbon cable socket.

Hardware is MUCH more stable / reliable IMHO

If you can afford it, I would suggest you condier RAID 3 or 5 - which needs one more drive. Here you have both slightly increased speed but also have redundancy - one drive can die completely and you still have all data intact.

Answer 2

First you have to make sure you have "RAID" on your computer, this might be hardware, or more then likely...software. If you do, you should be able to run the RAID utility to configure your RAID 0 (this is a stripe set). If you don't have a RAID utility on your computer, just search for one on the net. I strongly recommend reading up on RAID configurations before you do this. It is very risky because if one hard drive goes, your data on the other disk is useless. It writes one bit on one disk, and one bit on the next. So you should only use this type of configuration if you NEED higher read/write speeds or if you need multiple disks to be combined into a larger "one"

Answer 3

For one they need to be identical sata hdds.Then You need the drivers on a floppy.You will have to access your bios and configure a stripped set.During os install you push F6 when prompted and load 3112 or what ever drivers you need.Then your hhd's will read and write data simultaneously.Which means your data is not together on one hdd.So it might be a good idea to run stripped+mirrored.

Answer 4

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