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Raid? Sata?

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Porphyria

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I know this is hard drive configurations.. but can someone go more indepth with what each one does, and how each one differs? All help is appreciated.. my new mobo supports SATA ( hasn't yet arrived ), and I don't understand what the advantages / disadvantages of it are.

Thanks in advance.. sorry if this is a re-asked question.
 
dont apologise(serch is off, so youd have to go through it manualy) now, raid stands for ither redundent aray of inexpensive disks or indapendant disks. now thair are difrent types of raid, the most common being raid 0 and raid 1, 0 is to diskes hooked up to act like one, imagin having 2 sets of eyes so you could read the same thing 2 times as fast, thats basicly what raid 0 is. raid 1 is 1 disk automatically coppying the other. their is no peroformance change, but if one disk fails, you have a imediat back up that kicks right in.

now sata is like normal ata but faster, (150 mbs as aposed to 133 mbs in the fastest ata settings) and uses thiner cables as aposed to ribbon cabbals that have less impact on airflow(think round cables)
 
I like to think of raid 0 as having 2 straws in a glass of water... rather than just one. IF that glass of water spills ...your screwed. But with raid1 you have 2 glasses of water with 2 straws. If one spills you have an exact copy to take over.



You can substitute water for beer if you'd like - might hit closer to home on what kind of mental anguish can happen if you spill it.
 
You can set it up in your bios ...basically set it for RAID 0 and it will build the array - make sure you have the drivers hand for when you install the OS. Its relatively easy.
 
What mb do you have? What hds do you have?

Does your mb support sATA RAID, or will you use IDE? You may need a RAID adapter thingie.

Do you plan to overclock?

The point I am trying to make is that it really depends on what you want to do. If you have a really fast system, and you would like to be able to load programs and boot into windows a hair faster, then sATA RAID is a really expensive way to get a small performance advantage, imho.

Chroma was right when he advised you to have the drivers ready when you install the os. To be more specific, have them ready on a floppy.

RAID is nice, I guess.... I set it up and it's a little quicker like I mentioned above, but hardly so. I think the sATA is the quicker part of my sATA RAID setup.
 
I have 2* 40 gig WD.
The motherboard I purchased (Dont' feel like searching for a link.. but its the 113$ or so intel mobo) I believe has SATA already on the board.
 
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