Drive Configuration Advise

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Nikop23

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I am re-formatting my system, and I am wondering what the best set up will be. I have 4 matched WD 160g Hard drives. My options are

1 OS Drive and 3 Program/Storage drives in raid0

2 Drive Raid0 OS and 2 Drive Raid0 Program/ Storage

4 Drive Raid0 Array

If I go with one of the first 2, also need to know if it is better to install programs on the OS drive, or the secondary. What is the effective difference.

Note I do have a 1Tb external hooked in thru E-sata for backup

Mostly gaming, but I will be also dealing with some uncompressed AVI's at times
I will be installing Win7 Beta

Any advise is appreciated
 
[LYL]Homer;1033712882 said:
RAID 0+1 using all 4 drives.

*advice
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if I do that instead of 4 in straight raid0 that will cut my drive speed in half. I am not worried about safety/redundancy
 
With 4 older 160 drives, your risk of array failure is fairly high. If your controller supports Raid 5, then go that route. Otherwise, I would do a 2 drive Raid 0 for the OS, and 2 drive Raid 0 for Data.

Or get 1 single WD 640 and you will prolly save the cost if it in power savings alone in the first year.

Don
 
DonDon said:
With 4 older 160 drives, your risk of array failure is fairly high. If your controller supports Raid 5, then go that route. Otherwise, I would do a 2 drive Raid 0 for the OS, and 2 drive Raid 0 for Data.

Or get 1 single WD 640 and you will prolly save the cost if it in power savings alone in the first year.

Don
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My drives are all less than a year old. I am only interested in speed here.
 
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