Raid 1 on only 2 partions?

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Krilikz

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So this is what i want to do....

I have two hard drives, i want both to have 4 partitions

On the Drive0 i want the primary os partition with raid 1 on it. The other partition on Drive 0 i want to use for manually backing up stuff

On Drive 1 i want the mirrored os partition. Then the other partition on drive 1 is for games, applications ect...


Now is it possible to do what im saying. Only having raid 1 working on two partitions instead of two whole drives?
 
Why raid 1? This only gives you a copy of the disk if one drive craps out.

I'd say run the whole thing as raid 0 and get an external USB harddrive and Acronis True Image Home if you want backups/imaged harddrives. Very very nice software.
 
Yes exactly, so if my 1 os partition craps out, i still have the other, yea its not exactly likely to happen.

Is it possible though?
 
Let me get this...

You want the first half of both drives in Raid 1 for redundancy for the OS.

Then you have a regular non-raid partition on the remaining other half of the two drives.

Sounds way too hard and no benefit.


Why do you want this? Raid 1 is not what a regular user wants, your making this too hard on yourself. I remember a thread back with a person who was thinking either Dual 1TB drives in raid 1, or dual drives, one just normal, and the other for backups and other storage.

I thought Raid 10 would've been awesome (Two Raid 0's in Raid 1... the performance of a stripe, but the redundancy of a mirror), but too much work, too much money, etc. Keep it simple, dual drives for raid 0, and a single drive to image and back up your stuff.
 
What MOBO are you using?

There is an intel solution that allows you to use RAID 0 and 1 on the same drives, but I forget what it is called as I am really drunk right now. Explore Intels web site or check back on Tuesday afternoon and I should have a more coherent esplanation for you.

Matrix, that's what it is called. If your MOBO supports Matrix, you can combine Raid 0 + 1 on one Mobo.

Don
 
Thanks DonDon, solved my question. From what i see my 680i dosnt support it.
 
Thanks DonDon, solved my question. From what i see my 680i dosnt support it.
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Yea, it would obviously only be on an Intel based board.

Don
 
This is a very simple thing to do if you're running Linux and don't mind running software RAID. If you're running Windows, there are some versions that have the ability to do software-based RAID, but I'm not very familiar with which versions and if the Windows software raid is capable of doing such a thing. You might look into that if you have your heart set on doing this.
 
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