My Options?

[MirageMobile]

I have 2 6400AAKS drives and a 1.5TB 7200.11 drive.

My knowledge of RAID is limited (only knowing the differences between each setup).

Anyways, what are my options for this 3-drive configuration?

 

[Dangman]

What do you wish to accomplish with this RAID array? Speed, uptime, storage, etc?

 

[MirageMobile]

Speed would be the primary concern, as this computer is used for gaming and CAD.

The 1.5tb drive is new due to capacity needs and I was planning to move movies and such to it.

RAID 0 the AAKS and have the 7200.11 as storage?

Drive failure seems detrimental to this setup.

 

[shady86]

I would matrix RAID the WD drives and use the 1.5TB as storage. I have similiar setup with 2 Samsung F1s 640GB and a 1TB Ecogreen F2 as storage. For the two WD drives, I would short stroke maybe 80GB for OS(RAID0), another 100 or 150GB for apps(RAID0) and the rest for RAID1 or RAID0 depending of storage needs or reliability.

 

[DougLite]

Matrix RAID the two 640s, go with a mirror portion for your OS and programs, create a striped portion to load your CAD files in and out, copy your CAD files to the 1.5TB as often as possible to have an online backup copy.