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Cloning my OS?

Viper87227

Viper87227

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I have 3 hard drives, a 120GB, 60GB, and 80GB. I have been concidering a new motherboard with Raid support. I spose first off all, can you use differnt sized drives in Raid 0? I always assumed I could... And, assuming I can, and do, I am gunna get a smaller 10-20GB hard drive for my OS and whatnot that wouldnt be in the array. That way if any of the drives in the array fail (I have a WD drive I dont trust) I woudlnt loose my OS and all the other important files I have strored (I help maintain 200+ computers in my school district, I have alto of important files on my comptuter) . So, when I got the new drive woudl I have to resintall windows and copy over all my files (pain in the ass) or is there a way to just set the new drive as a slave, copy over windows, and then swap it for a master and windows woudl run like I didnt change a thing?
 
Well, you can use different sized drives, how ever, the size will be limited to x*(size of smallest drive) where x is teh number of drives for raid 0.

Also why bother with raid 0 at all? With all different drive sizes you're losing capacity and with differences in drive speed, you're going to limit your self in that respect too.
 
Agreed. Just load up different drives and use em for storage. Also using an old 20 gig drive for your OS will have a negative impact on performance unless it's a fast SCSI drive. Most IDE 20 gigers are pretty slow. 5400RPM spindle / ATA33 or 66.
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If you are getting a new board, it should support SATA. Might consider a single 10,000 RPM HD, even a baby raptor would do. Partition sufficient space for OS, apps, and swap file on first available space . MBR gets prime real estate on a platter, but keeping OS from growing into end of the drive, will give ya best random seek performance.
 
yeah..the board im getting has 2 SATA. Only problem is, I already have 3 hard drives, wont getting a raptor add alot of heat? I dont mind having 4 or 5 hard drives, I certainly know my power supply can handle them. I have exellent airflow in my case, but I still think having a raptor or two on top of 3 hard drives already could be pushing it.
 
just out of curosity, since I may be getting a 6800U which would need alot of power, woudl it be possable to run two power supplies? I coudl just have one outside my case, and feed molex connectors in. I woudl have my good PSU connected to the mobo, card, cd roms, and a hard drive or two, then for my cheaper PSU I could just run the other hard drives off it...would that work?
 
A single 10k SATA drive would be only addition really. With OS and stuff on a 10 GB partition at the beginning of drive, even small raptor would leave 20 GB or so for games. The 3 HD's you have will also be functional (provided you actually have enough IDE connectors to accomodate them), for archival and less speed sensitive apps. Remember to add the controller drivers in F6 portion of OS install for SATA recognition. One more drive shouldn't really present a heat or power issue unless you start overclocking the heck out of the CPU and or GPU. I'm assuming you are using at least 450 watt Power supply.
 
Leadman584 said:
A single 10k SATA drive would be only addition really. With OS and stuff on a 10 GB partition at the beginning of drive, even small raptor would leave 20 GB or so for games. The 3 HD's you have will also be functional (provided you actually have enough IDE connectors to accomodate them), for archival and less speed sensitive apps. Remember to add the controller drivers in F6 portion of OS install for SATA recognition. One more drive shouldn't really present a heat or power issue unless you start overclocking the heck out of the CPU and or GPU. I'm assuming you are using at least 450 watt Power supply.
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Yeah...I am using a custom made 450W PC Power and Cooling PSU...it was $200, its a quality PSU... and as far as enough IDE ports...ive got 4, meaning 8 devices, i got pleanty of room there.
 
With the stuff you have if you read some of the comments you will see alot of good reasons not to raid.
 
xphantg0d said:
With the stuff you have if you read some of the comments you will see alot of good reasons not to raid.
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Yeah I am not gunna anymore...mostly becuase I dont want to format, I have no way to backup all my data
 
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