raid question

[p-n-p]

what will I end up for storage space if I raid 0 w/ 2-320GB hd's

 

[DistributedBen]

I think that with RAID 0, there is no overhead, so you have access to all of the disk space. Of course, if one of the drives fails, everything is gone.

 

[swatbat]

Formated prob just shy of 600 gigs.

 

[vischo]

http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html

 

[p-n-p]

http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html

Thanx , good reference !

 

[este]

I ended up with 598GB with my two seagate .10s

But since your running a Intel Matrix controller you might want to look at setting up a small backup partition too.

Ex, I have 2x320 and have 500Gb for raid0 and 48Gb mirrored (raid1) on the two drives. Both have windows, both are bootable. If I want to back something up off my raid0 drive, I just put it on the mirrored section and now have 2 backups of it.

Couldn't be happier with my setup.

 

[Madwand]

"598 GB" according to Microsoft would probably be 598 GiB according to most others and what they teach in schools these days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

598 GiB = 598 * 2^30 ~ 642.1 * 10^9 ~ 2 * 320 * 10^9 = 2 * 320 GB.

I have 2x 300 GB drives here in RAID 0. Microsoft shows

"Capacity: 600,173,969,408 bytes 558 GB"

I'd call this 600 GB, also 558 GiB.

 

[unhappy_mage]

If I want to back something up off my raid0 drive, I just put it on the mirrored section and now have 2 backups of it.

And when a virus corrupts that file on one disk, the corruption is instantly automatically replicated to the other disk. What you have is *not* a backup. Backups are read-only, permanent, and off-site.