I have a file server with an 80GB as the OS/APPS/Gameserver disk, and have a 160 for the actual file server. The 160 was filling up with media files so I bought a 250 GB. Should I make them both as one disk? Or should I use the 250GB just for media, and the 160 for everything else?
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I am assuming you mean making them in RAID? If so you need a minimum of 3 drives for RAID 5, and if you don't care about your data and don't mind losing it all when the drive crashes. Then RAID 0 requires 2 drives, and they must be identical drives, technically you could use the 160 and the 250 but then the 250 is reduced to only 160gb of space.
Keep the drives seperate unless you really wanna go RAID 5 then get a cheap hardware controller and identical drives.
Should I make them both as one disk?
I am assuming you mean making them in RAID? If so you need a minimum of 3 drives for RAID 5, and if you don't care about your data and don't mind losing it all when the drive crashes. Then RAID 0 requires 2 drives, and they must be identical drives, technically you could use the 160 and the 250 but then the 250 is reduced to only 160gb of space.
Keep the drives seperate unless you really wanna go RAID 5 then get a cheap hardware controller and identical drives.
drizzt81 said:he could span them to make it appear as a single volume. Spanning may survive a single disk failure.
I would suggest 2 independent, separate drives: KISS.
Is KISS something I should understand?
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Keep It Simple Stupid... pretty sure thats what he means.
tenpinsniper said:Keep It Simple Stupid... pretty sure thats what he means.
QFT, unless of course you want to ID 10 T problems later
the point of KISS is that less complicated approaches are likely to be less error prone. Think of how much more durable CF is compared to a HDD. Less moving parts, less complicated, less chance of error.
So, the simpler you HDD structure is, the less likely you are to discover a bug in the more complicated parts of the file/disk management system, which is where parts are more likely to be, since it is more complex to write...
*blah blah*
my point: If you can have one drive as a media drive, the other as 'other' drive, it is easier to do that and be happy.
So, the simpler you HDD structure is, the less likely you are to discover a bug in the more complicated parts of the file/disk management system, which is where parts are more likely to be, since it is more complex to write...
*blah blah*
my point: If you can have one drive as a media drive, the other as 'other' drive, it is easier to do that and be happy.