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Vlad_13
09-14-2006, 10:32 PM
I have a Wester Digital 120 gig HDD with a IDE to SATA adaptor. Which RAID it will work? Mainly this HDD will be for trash and some other crap, my Raptor for OS on RAID0 and my Caviar for music, movis and game ISOs also on RAID0 (or maybe something better?)

So which RAID i need to put that 120IDE?
ChingChang
09-14-2006, 10:46 PM
RAID none?

For your music, movies, and ISOs, you could do RAID 1 or 5 depending on how many drives you have and if you think you'll upgrade...

but personally, I wouldn't use RAID with different model drives...



I'm not sure I even understand your setup even.
Vlad_13
09-14-2006, 11:15 PM
Raptor is for OS (main HDD) on RAID0, Caviar for music, movies and game ISOs on RAID0 (or something that will not split my HDD in two, i need the full 250 gigs with something that will keep it safe). And for the 120 IDE which has a IDE to SATA conector i will have junk, different crap...(no idea which RAID or no RAID?)

So what i put that IDE on, nothing? (not that familiar with them...)
hardwarephreak
09-14-2006, 11:34 PM
I have read both of your posts...and I have thought about them. And all I can say is that you don't do single drive RAID.

You just don't. When SATA first showed up in onboard mobo controllers, you could sometimes trick the controller into RAID 1 a single drive (loved those Promise controllers).

Single drive = no RAID.

Raptor....you do mean two Raptors right? Because if you typed what you meant to say, then you need to go google RAID. I mean its up to you, but the one thing I am not going to go messing around with is my data. If you don't know what you are doing, go do some research before you try to setup anything that is supposed to store data that is important to you.
Vlad_13
09-14-2006, 11:48 PM
crap...i didn't know that u can't RAID single drive :(
protias
09-15-2006, 08:27 AM
i need the full 250 gigs with something that will keep it safe

*gets gun out to kill the dead horse just in case it becomes undead*

raid0 is not a backup. hmm, can't seem to find that post....i thought it was a sticky
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