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[COLOR=royalblue]Once reserved for servers and high-end workstations, RAID technology for linking multiple hard drives is gaining favor with PC users looking to improve performance affordably. Tests by PC World show they're on to something: Two RAID-connected drives completed some tasks in 40 percent less time than one drive of the same type.[/COLOR]
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iss
on February 3, 2003 2:14 PM |
Raid is faster but it is also riskier. in a raid O setup if one drive fails you lose all the data on both drives. |
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MrGaribaldi
on February 3, 2003 2:50 PM |
But if you can afford 4 drives, running RAID 0+1 should be both faster and safer... (since it's both striping and mirroring...) |
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Phantasm66
on February 3, 2003 2:52 PM |
I've never really gone for RAID 1. I would rather backup to another machine over a network connection, or to tape or something. My plans for 4 HDDs would be purely RAID 0. |
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Rick
on February 3, 2003 4:39 PM |
[quote][i]Originally posted by iss [/i][b]Raid is faster but it is also riskier. in a raid O setup if one drive fails you lose all the data on both drives. [/b][/quote] I suppose.. But stastically, wouldn't your chances of 1 out 2 hard disks failing be the same as a single drive failing? :)You wouldn't be putting yourself in more danger necessarily, since your chances of a failing drive and equally picked among both single and double drive setups. Yeah? :confused: And if you do something wrong to your RAID setup (user error), corrupting your partitinos or whatnot - Would this have not happened to a single drive anyway... if you never had chosen to use RAID in the first place?Allow me to hop into Phantasm66's time machine and find out... |
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iss
on February 3, 2003 5:44 PM |
[quote]I suppose.. But stastically, wouldn't your chances of 1 out 2 hard disks failing be the same as a single drive failing? [/quote] well I would actually feel more secure with two seagate drives in a raid 0 setup than I would with one IBM 60 Gb drive. :D |
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---agissi---
on February 3, 2003 6:14 PM |
Techspot, Raid has always appealed to me....its just I've never really knowen how to set it up ;) I also think it would make a good article, please take this into consideration.Thanks! |
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Rick
on February 3, 2003 6:36 PM |
[quote][i]Originally posted by iss [/i][b]well I would actually feel more secure with two seagate drives in a raid 0 setup than I would with one IBM 60 Gb drive. :D [/b][/quote] Same here... :o |
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Phantasm66
on February 4, 2003 6:47 AM |
[quote][i]Originally posted by Rick [/i][b]time machine and find out... [/b][/quote] Always at your disposal....[img]http://phantazmm.freeservers.com/tardis.gif /img] |
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StormBringer
on February 4, 2003 9:37 AM |
This may sound odd, but I swear that thing is larger inside than it is outside. ;) BTW Agissi, if you use the SEARCH feature, you can find some great info here on RAID. At one time there was a Sticky post in Storage outlining RAID. |
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Per Hansson
on February 4, 2003 10:49 AM |
[quote][i]Originally posted by ---agissi--- [/i][b]Techspot, Raid has always appealed to me....its just I've never really knowen how to set it up ;) I also think it would make a good article, please take this into consideration.Thanks! [/b][/quote]I believe I'm the only one in the staff that runs a RAID-0 setup, so if enough people want it; sure I'll write an article on it... |
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Phantasm66
on February 4, 2003 12:36 PM |
I also have RAID-0, I think 1-2 other members might as well....Stormbinger.....I think he has RAID-0??? |
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