Raid 0 Question?

Question

I currently have a crosshair mb with a 150g raptor (10,000 rpm) and a 300g west dig (7200rpm)...I just purchased another raptor to create a Raid 0. My first question is, will I have to wipe my current raptor in order to set it up? My second question is, should I take my OS (xp 64 bit) off my 300 gig all together and put my OS on the raptors? Will that make it faster than having my os on the 7200rpm 300gig? Which is the best way to configure it? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I am pretty sure your disk will be wiped when you create the RAID 0 set. I havent looked at the specs on your controller, but I doubt it would let you do a non destructive RAID create.

A RAID 0 will generally always be faster than a single disk, however, a RAID 0 will also double your odds of having data loss due to disk failure since RAID 0 offers no parity protection as RAID 1 or RAID 5 will.

As far as whether you should set up your OS on a RAID 0, I would usually not recommend it due to the increased odds of catastrophic failure. If you do choose to do so, back up your system frequently.

I would recommend setting up a RAID 1 and putting your OS and anytihng needing extra performance or protection on that disk group. RAID 1 will effectively double your read performance (if your RAID controller is worth a damn) but have no impact on write performance. The only catch, is you lose half your available disk space because the disks will mirror each other. You will, however, never lose data due to a single disk failure.

Answer 2

RAID 0 is once you have 2 annoying drives that cut up the information the two. which will advance performace because of the fact the workstation can pull information from 2 annoying drives quicker than it could from one. Technically that doubles yourcontinual skill, so in case you have 2 annoying drives that are 100Gb each and every, you have got 200Gb entire because of the fact the information is cut up in 0.5 between the two the drives interior RAID 0. RAID a million is whilst 2 or extra annoying drives are reflected. meaning all annoying drives have the suitable comparable information on them that's good in case of a annoyingcontinual crash, you do not lose your information. regardless of the undeniable fact that, if each and every of the drives interior RAID a million are we could say 100Gb, then it is all you will desire to have obtainable, not 200Gb. If acontinual crashes in RAID 0, you lose all your information until you could rebuild the RAID setup. i could like RAID 0 for my abode windows setting up so each and every thing runs quicker and RAID a million for garage so in case acontinual crashes interior RAID a million, i don't lose any of my saved information. If my RAID 0 crashes, all I would desire to do is reinstall abode windows and my courses.

Answer 3

why do you want to do a raid system. you will not benefit what so ever,,,

first of all.... all drives have to be the same size, so if the first drive is 150gig and the second drive is 300 gig what will happen it your 300 gig will be reduced to the 150 gig size, and you can't put the 300 gig drive first, because it will not mirror the second drive to be a 300 gig when it is only a 150 gig drive

raid is only worth doing in case one drive goes down, it is a mirror copy of the other drive,, thats all...