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Two questions concerning RAID0

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toenexx

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These are probably dumb questions but I am fairly new to RAID0 so here goes:

1. Does RAID0 also work with IDE drives? WHen I get a NForce3 250 gb mobo I don;t plan to switch over to SATA immediately.
2. If RAID0 does work with IDE drives, am I going to have to format both of the drives I am going to use? I have 1x40 gig and 1x20 gig, both from Western Digital.

Thanks.
 
RAID is independant of drive technology - it is a way of splitting data across disks - just make sure your RAID controller supports the drive type you want to use.

That said - RAID arrays are usually made from sets of identical drives. Identical drives gets rid of a host of issues like differing seek times, cache sizes, cache algorithms, etc... In your case your 40GB drive would become a 20GB drive if you RAIDed it with your 20GB drive. (Have a server that has four 18GB SCSI drives and one 33GB SCSI drive in a RAID5 array - the OEM for the box didn't carry 18GB models anymore, and it works just fine. The 33 just uses half it's space)

Something to consider - RAID0 does not increase performance in the vast majority of tasks. www.storagereview.com has an excellent RAID guide that explains why sequential throughput does not equate to a better experience. RAID0 also isn't true RAID because there's no redundancy involved in it.

In general you will experience better performance from separate drives that can seek independantly than from two drives strapped together on a sub-par RAID controller.

If you're bound and determined to RAID0 these, I know that some of the nFORCE3 boards have RAID controllers that work for IDE, SATA, and IDE/SATA raid arrays. Check your manual to see if your board is capable of that.
 
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