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Tareon

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Hey guys,

I've never done RAID before but I'm thinking of placing my 2 120gig SATA WD's in RAID 0. Also, is there any way to create this array without losing/formatting my HD's? Thanks in advance..
 
nope, youd need to backup first

240GB of RAID 0 is alot of Storage Space at a heightened risk of data loss
What is it your expecting? What are your primary applications?
 
Sorry to jump into someone else's thread, but I too was looking at setting up a RAID O setup similar to Tareon and have a few questions.

1. Why would it be more risky to run a raid than a standard ide/sata?

and 2. What are the real world speed gains? Are we talking that it loads windows 3 seconds faster or half?

Thanks in advance.
 
1. Why would it be more risky to run a raid than a standard ide/sata?
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All the data is striped across two drives. If you have a HDD drive die or a stripe gets broken for no reason. You loose all data. The chances are small for getting it back. That is why you see most Raid users with a third drive for storage. Leave nothing on a RAID setup you want to loose. It can happen with no warning.

What are the real world speed gains
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I do not know on the newer SATA drive. But on IDE the gain was around 30% to 40%. If you were lucky. It dependes on the drive itself. Some mfg's drives do not like Raid0.
 
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