Gastro

I've just recently acquired a rather nice computer (thanks Matt) - an abit KT7-RAID motherboard........... with a Barracuda ATA III HD --> are there huge advantages linking this with the RAID ATA controller ????? .....and how easy is it using win 98SE ?

Thanks,

Gastro

DazV

Two hard disks set as one virtual disk using the RAID controller is quicker than using a single hard disk.

Whether you'd appreciate the difference is debateable.

suba

gastro, did you come down to london to collect the PC?

anyway, to use RAID, you will need to have 2 identical HDD. you can either have it for speed or the safety of your data.

Gastro

I knew I could rely on good old scoobynet !
Didnt go down to London Suba - just a mutual meeting place .........

Thats all the info I need to know - thanks - very happy with the performance already & this saved me many hours of work - THANK YOU

Gastro

suba

ok, here a quickie low down on RAID (based on two HDD in array)...

you can have RAID 0 or 1.

raid 0 - known as striping, so the data is distrubuted evenly between all the HDD in the array. in theory, you should get higher performance and you get the full capacity of your HDD. so striping two 40Gb HDD will get you a single 80Gb capacity. there's no safety net in raid 0 coz the HDD is like one big volume, so if one HDD goes, you lose your data.

raid 1 - known as mirroring, so if one HDD fail, the other one take over, so your data is not lost. raid 1 is better for reliability and not for performance. since the data is written into both HDD, two 40Gb HDD will get you 40Gb capacity.

super_si

Im gonna use the striped array [0]

For example if you had a 1000mb file! it'd write 500mb to [0] and 500mb[1] hard drive

But in order for it to work the RPM n size has to be indentical iwas going to run to 40gb 5400rpm but instead ive bought 1 7200 till i can afford to buy n identical drive! much faster then

Si

FamousCoops

i running 2 40 gig ultra fast seagates on jetway ultra raid mobo and getting transfer rates over 60meg a sec raided drives r bloody fast