hi,i have just bought two new seegate sata-hard disks 7200.10 (each 160 gb), now i want to know what is this RAID thing in hard disks,i am using a gigabyte mobo which supports this feature but i dont know how to set my hard disks in raid n how will it affect the performance of my pc??????
i wil really appreciate any kind of help!!!!
2007-06-19 03:33:49 · 4 answers · asked by t2manu 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
RAID 0 is your two hard drives running as one so you would have 1 320 gig hard drive utilising the speed of two so it would be twice as fast. if a drive fails all data is lost
RAID 1 is you two drives backing each other up . so the same data is wrote to both drives so if one fails no data is lost cause its all on the other. But there is no performance advantage only security of not loseing data
2007-06-19 03:38:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you are dealing with very sensitive data you probably don't want to set up raid. It will often use more of your processor and you really only get to use half of your disk space. Better bet for backup is simply to set up a recovery drive, using some form of sync software (google it, many out there). Sync will automatically back up only certain important folders. If you have both drives running all the time though, and copying each other, you will wear out the drives faster and also only get 160gb of storage when you purchased double that. Seagate makes decent drives, so you shouldn't be that concerned with the loss of data. Raid: good for very sensitive data that can't be replaced. Most people don't need it.
2007-06-19 10:41:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it sounds like u dont know much about computer so i would not attempt it. raid is used in case a hard drive goes u can put in a new one and the other hard drive will rebuild it.
2007-06-19 10:38:31 · answer #3 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
2007-06-19 10:36:58 · answer #4 · answered by Katie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋