Hard drive quesstion?

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Xenocide2020

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well i have a couple of questions about HDD's so bear with me.

I have the choice of either getting 1 big SATA hard drive or 2 IDE hard drives and using RAID 0, what do you think would benefit me more the SATA or the RAID 0'ed IDE's?

Second if you are using RAID 0 can you still partition your drives and have RAID work?

and third if you want RAID 0 to work to the drives have to be the same siize? for example could i have a 40 gig and a 60 gig hard drive combined using RAID 0?

thanks,

-Tyler
 
If your looking for speed the RAID 0 is going to be faster then the single SATA drive.

In a raid you should to use the same size drives. you can use different sizes, but the bigger drive will only use the same space as the smaller drive. ie

40+60=80 gig total space, the 60 will loose 20gigs due to the other drive being a 40...
 
ok so its kinda a bottleneckish type thing? will the extra 20 gigs be used as a normal non RAIDed drive or will it just not be used at all
 
My recommendation is NOT to RAID 0 anything critical. Like your OS drive. With RAID 0 you have basically twice the failure rate simply due to having 2 drives, which if anything happens to either of them, you lose your data. Now, if you're just using it for storage (I.E. mot OS) then by all means.

I use RAID 0 a lot for video work, as the added throughput is very nice, and makes things go much faster. But i would never ever put my OS or any other critical files on one.
 
Xenocide2020 said:
ok so its kinda a bottleneckish type thing? will the extra 20 gigs be used as a normal non RAIDed drive or will it just not be used at all
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Not used at all. RAID 0 is simple data striping, which requires the drives to be the same size. The extra size on the bigger drive is simply lost. Go with the single big drive. :)
 
A single SATA drive, unless you have a major need for the speed (ie, lots and lots of video editing) and dont' care about losing any of your data.
 
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