 | | |
| Nick wrote: You can do it in software too, from the disk management panel. | |
| | |
eeeewww Software RAID. Yuk.
Nothing like slowing down your computer for no reason
| x404.co.uk http://www.x404.co.uk/forum/ |
|
| RAID Explained Anyone? http://www.x404.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1788 |
Page 1 of 2 |
| Author: | Brad [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RAID Explained Anyone? |
If theres 1 thing i still dont understand. Its Raid. Ok i understand what it does but how can i go raid? Yes I have 2 Sata Hard drives. But; do they need to be the same? Please could someone clear this up for me Many Thanks Brad |
|
| Author: | saspro [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
Depends on the type of raid Clicky graphical clicky |
|
| Author: | Brad [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
so it puts 2 hhd's together and makes them become 1 big hdd? |
|
| Author: | saspro [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
or mirrors one hdd with another |
|
| Author: | veato [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
Stripe or mirror. Thats the choice with 2 HDDs. Raid 1: A mirror from one to the other means if one drive dies you have all your data intact. 2 x 500GB drives would only give you 500GB usable space, for example. Raid 0: Data is distributed over both discs (striped) for (theoretically) improved performance. 2 x 500GB drives would give you 1TB usable space, for example. If one disc goes down though you lose all data. Raid 1+0: Stripe AND mirror. If you had four discs you could stripe across two and mirror to the other two. You get the speed and the redundancy but need a lot more discs. 4 x 500GB would only give you 1TB. Raid 5: Discs are striped with one for parity. You could use as few as three discs but you lose one. 3 x 500GB would give you 1TB. If one disc goes down your data remains intact and you can replace the damage disc. The array will then rebuild itself. |
|
| Author: | Brad [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
So how can i make my 2 hard drives become 1 what RAID configuration is that? |
|
| Author: | veato [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
Raid 0 I guess is what you want then. |
|
| Author: | saspro [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
But you'll have to do a clean format first. Also remember to backup as if 1 drive dies you lose everything. |
|
| Author: | hifidelity2 [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
You will need to download the raid drivers for your motherboard Are you using XP or Vista ? For XP you then need to do a clean install and install the raid drivers when it asks you for the Raid / SCSI drivers ( or Nlite a copy of XP as I did) I did mirroring as wanted the extra protection as don’t see any need for the marginal increase in speed at Raid 0 would give. If I want more space I will have separate disks |
|
| Author: | EddArmitage [ Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
Think it was Ben who gave me the link originally, but have a looksy here Edd |
|
| Author: | Nick [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
You can do it in software too, from the disk management panel. |
|
| Author: | saspro [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:23 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? | |||||||||
eeeewww Software RAID. Yuk. Nothing like slowing down your computer for no reason |
||||||||||
| Author: | forquare1 [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:09 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? | ||||||||||||||||||
I've not seen noticeable performance losses with ZFS software raid...Though I must admit I've not seen any performance gains. I've got a two mirrors atm, will be upgrading to a RAIDz/Raid-5 when I upgrade my motherboard. |
|||||||||||||||||||
| Author: | Nick [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:03 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? | ||||||||||||||||||
I agree, hardware all the way. But if you can't do hardware, then software is definitely better than nothing. You'll be up sh*t creek without a paddle if you lose a drive otherwise. |
|||||||||||||||||||
| Author: | forquare1 [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAID Explained Anyone? |
Don't forget: Mirroring DOES NOT protect from idiotic (accidental) deletion 
|
|
| Page 1 of 2 | All times are UTC |
| Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group https://www.phpbb.com/ |
|