Two hard drives, what set up?

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ArrizX

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I am wanting to go a few different ways with my hard drives. I havent bought any so its up for dispute.

I was thinking a 500GB as my main OS and program drive. and a 1TB as a media storage drive.

But I was wondering if I should get two 1TB drives and run Raid0 instead? Would the performance with the raid be worth runing two seperate drives for seperate things? I cant afford a SSD or solid state, and my idea HDD setup would be Raid 0+1 but thats just not in the budget.

What do you guys think?
 
Are you a seeder or constant downloader? If so, having a single RAID0 to do everything will be slowed down by the drive having to seek from one end to another. That is a lesson I learned the hard way. It all depends. If you're not a big downloader and especially if you're not a seeder, then a RAID0 setup will be blazing fast and well worth it. Might be best, if you have the money, to set up a small fast 80GB SSD as system and a big single drive as storage, or something similar. If there's no SSD money, maybe a small RAID0 for system and a big single drive for mass data storage, even vice versa is nice (that's how I do it, on the RAID0 data volume, RAR file extractions are faaaasssssssst!)
 
Not a huge downloader, therefore I do not seed. Internet sucks here and cant hack it.

I have fiber, but its an interesting setup I have going. Anyways;


That is a great idea. One mass data disk and one raid 0 with two smaller drives. I really like that. And yes no SSD money :(

How large of drives would you reccomend for a raid 0 main system and program drives? Biggest for whatever is in the budget?

all movies, pictures, music, etc would go on the larger disk. I am strictly speaking OS one the raid 0 plus whatever programs installed to those disks as well like anti virus, photoshop, etc?
 
Don't put anything on the RAID0 that you can't afford to lose. It's not really a good idea to use a RAID0 for long-term data storage, because at some point, one of those hard drives will fail, and your data will be permanently gone. I don't know whether even professional data recovery companies can rebuild a failed RAID 0 - if they can, you're going to be paying lots of money for it. And if you have 2 2TB drives, then 4TB is a heck of a lot of data to lose forever. If I were you I'd go with at least a RAID 5 of 1 or 2TB drives, or get a single/RAID 0 array for OS, games, programs, etc, and then get a larger RAID 1 array for storage of music, movies, etc.
 
Interesting theory. I like it.

Sounds like so far Raid 0 is a good optiion for OS and programs.

What size is reccomended for optimal efficiency of Raid0?

And just curious... how many of you guys actually run a Raid 0?

I will need to look up how to set this up. Ive never done it before.
 
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