dabookerman Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 Ok so i have Sata HDDs. but i dunno which one to choose, raid 1/0/5 etc etc. which one is the standard one?
Andrew Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 I've been told raid 5 is supposed to be the best, but it's probably a bit over-the-top for most people. Out of the other two, for reliability and data safety choose raid 1, but for speed and performance, choose raid 0.
dabookerman Posted March 26, 2006 Author Posted March 26, 2006 From what i understand choosing which Raid configuration is only important if you have more than 1 HDD right? Because i will have one 400gb sata hdd installed, and then in a week or so, my IDE from the other pc. i will get a secondary HDD end of the year (or when i run out of space.)
RoadKill Posted March 26, 2006 Posted March 26, 2006 If you don't know what RAID is, don't even think about using it. Simple! Edit: Okay, okay.... RAID 0 is striping. It means you can join a few disks together so they look like one big disk. Don't do this. If one drive fails, all of your data is gone. It is, however, often marginally quicker than running a single drive. RAID 1 is mirroring. So if you have 2 disks in a RAID 1 array, it basically mirrors each disk. (Limited to the smallest disk size). RAID 5 is striping with parity, kind of like RAID 0 but without the horrendous 1 drive = dead array thing. It can handle a single drive failure, and needs at least 3 drives to operate. You have the capacity of the smallest drive in the array * the number of drives - 1 in RAID 5.
dabookerman Posted March 26, 2006 Author Posted March 26, 2006 Yeah i mean, it explains all that in the mobo instruction manual... so i dont HAVE to use it, because i dont like any of them really.
RoadKill Posted March 26, 2006 Posted March 26, 2006 No, you don't have to use squat. If you just leave all those settings alone, it will just act like normal.
dabookerman Posted March 26, 2006 Author Posted March 26, 2006 great, dunno why the hell i worried in the first place.
Bogbas Posted March 27, 2006 Posted March 27, 2006 The raid0 is good for at least one thing, storing captured video footage. As a 60min dv tape takes lots of space (1min~220Mb) if you have lots of footage it's easier if you have a single tape in a single file. And if one drive fails it doesn't matter as you still have the masters as a dv tape.
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