Computer Question, PLease help!!!

[kamarozrule]

I need to get a bigger hard drive so I'm pickin up a 250gb SATA HD off newegg. I currently have a 200gb SATA HD now. And I was reading about how to set up the the 2 of them in a RAID setting. My mobo can use the RAID 0,1 settings. My question is, which one should I use. I read that if I have it in 0 then the drives will just mirror each other. And in 1, the computer will only "see" 2 200gb hard drives meaning I'll lose 50gb. Am I understanding this correctly?

[bah]

Re: Computer Question, PLease help!!!

i'm pretty sure you have to have 2 identical hard drives, you may be able to set up the raid so it just combines them and they stripe some, but i think you are just better off to let the 2 do their own thing and be independent, i keep system files on my 160, and everything else on my 250 and everything is happy

[kamarozrule]

Re: Computer Question, PLease help!!!

ohh you can have two SATA drives and not have them in a RAID setup?

[BLLDOGG]

Re: Computer Question, PLease help!!!

do you know what i just read?

Я должен получить больший накопитель на жестких дисках, так что я - pickin 250gb SATA HD от newegg. Я в настоящее время имею 200gb SATA HD теперь. И я читал о том, как настроить(установить) 2 из них в урегулировании(установке) НАБЕГА. Мой mobo может использовать НАБЕГ 0,1 назначения. Мой вопрос, который должен я использовать. Я читал, что, если я имею это в 0, тогда двигатели будут только зеркало друг друг. И в 1, компьютер будет только "видеть" 2 200gb, накопители на жестких дисках, означающие меня должны потерять 50gb. Являются мной понимающий это правильно?

total post whoring right here:wavey:

[kamarozrule]

Re: Computer Question, PLease help!!!

do you know what i just read?



total post whoring right here:wavey:

too bad there isn't a english to greek translator lol

[MrCoffee]

Re: Computer Question, PLease help!!!

no matter what setup you use if you have mismatched hdd sizes it goes with the smallest one. raid 0 has no fault tolerence and is basically using 2 drives for one purpose. you'd really get 1 larger drive because the data is aplit evently across the two. This is good for performance. Raid 1 mirrors a hdd onto the other.
And no you do not need to setup Raid at all to have 2 sata drives connected.

[andrew.brandon]

Re: Computer Question, PLease help!!!

also, when you set up a raid array it automatically erases everythign on the HD's. something to think about if you have filled up a 200 GB HD.

[kamarozrule]

Re: Computer Question, PLease help!!!

also, when you set up a raid array it automatically erases everythign on the HD's. something to think about if you have filled up a 200 GB HD.

:eek: no thanks. I'll just be havin' 2 SATA HDs with no RAID crap.

[Nikos95]

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:eek: no thanks. I'll just be havin' 2 SATA HDs with no RAID crap.

Better off that way, unless you are trying to do something really high end anyways, raid is generally used only in servers, for mirroring of hard drives, or mass amounts of hard drives.

[SpeedingFirebird]

Re: Computer Question, PLease help!!!

Better off that way, unless you are trying to do something really high end anyways, raid is generally used only in servers, for mirroring of hard drives, or mass amounts of hard drives.

Actually, RAID in high end systems is used for parity checking HD (RAID 5), so that if one fails, the data is not lost - it can rebuilt from the parity bits on the other drivers.

There are several types of RAID for different purposes.