RAID guide?

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Rydawg5143

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SO i ordered another WD6400AAKS, already have one of them and a WD3200AAKS. Is there a idiots guide to setting up a RAID ( preformance? 0?) or can any1 tell me what all i'll need minus HD's ?
 
Rydawg5143 said:
SO i ordered another WD6400AAKS, already have one of them and a WD3200AAKS. Is there a idiots guide to setting up a RAID ( preformance? 0?) or can any1 tell me what all i'll need minus HD's ?
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First of all, you'll need a RAID card since the DS3L does not have onboard RAID. Or did you get a new motherboard in the last few months?

Second, do note that with RAID, the RAID array is only as big as the smallest drive in the array. If you have a 640GB and a 320GB drive in RAID 0, you'll only be able to use a total of 640GB of storage. If you use two 640GB drives in RAID 0, you'll be able to use 1280GB of storage. So just drop the 320GB from any sort of RAID array for now.

Third, when creating the initial RAID array, all data will be lost and formatted. So backup and store your data somewhere before you start the RAID.
 
-I ordered a 2nd 6400AAKS,
-WHat controller would you suggest? DOn't want to spend a crazy amount of money but i dont want trash.
- I should be able to keep my 3200 plugged into the sata ports on the Mobo and use it like normal right, just teh 2 640 will be effected?
- i found what seems to be a good guide , http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/393/2. Just reading atm

Someday instead of addint onto this machine ill build a new one :p i have the 2 640gb, the 320 and an ext 500 gb :p enough storage? sadly i dont need all of it but there is enough room! Plus i might toss the 320 in the gf's computer
 
raid 0 = performance
raid 1 = redundancy
raid 1/0 or 10 = performance and redundancy

raid 5 not sure, lol
 
Raid 0 aint worth the performance unless you got some 10K drives or something, honestly what would be the point.

If you need raid just for storage (ie to make all your physical drives into one logical drive) then id recomend either riad 5 or a simple JBOD, i am highly sure that a raid card would overkill in you case, software raid aint that bad, at least it works
 
so raid = not worth it ? all i do is play games and surf the net, with some minor video editing
 
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