Partial RAID1 ?

[EnderW]

Is it possible to do a partial RAID1? Say for example, I have 2 x x250GB drives. Is there anyway I could put 100GB of each one in RAID1 as one partition, and then use the rest of each drive independently?

Reason I am asking is there are some things I want mirrored, like my drive image backups, and important documents. But other stuff like pr0n, I wouldn't be too upset if I lost it, and it takes up a lot of space.

And I know I could delete some of it, burn it to DCD, get another single drive for unimportant stuff, but I don't really want to do that.

 

[ambit]

hardware RAID is always an 'all or nothing' setup.
You define which physical drives are in the array, not which partitions.

You can mirror only certian partions with software RAID and dynamic disks under 2k.xp

 

[St4t1c]

no u cant do that in raid 1...

but new motherboards have what they call "matrix raid" that u can do smth like that:

lets say you got 2 hdds...with 2 partitions on each...

the first partition on both the 2 disk is raid 1 (mirrored) & the second partition on both disk is raid 0...

must be really useful and gonna test it when i get me a 775 board...

 

[EnderW]

no u cant do that in raid 1...

but new motherboards have what they call "matrix raid" that u can do smth like that:

lets say you got 2 hdds...with 2 partitions on each...

the first partition on both the 2 disk is raid 1 (mirrored) & the second partition on both disk is raid 0...

must be really useful and gonna test it when i get me a 775 board...

I wonder if the new shuttle SB81P will support matrix RAID