Storage Solutions 1TB or 2*500GB in raid?

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madcrazyboys

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me plannin to get 1tb hdd...

never used raid b4... but read articles saying tht two identical hdd at raid 0 is faster than one...

any advice plz...
 
Yes, it does. But if either of the disk crashes, data present on the other drive would be useless. In short, you'd lose all the data.

More info - RAID
 
Coming from someone whose hard disk failed recently, I highly recommend getting 2*500 GB Raid 1. Raid 0 speeds up stuff but it increases the chances of failure. Of course if you are a gamer and take periodic backups then Raid 0 might be worth it.
 
that depends on how life-critical the data is. plus how greedy you are to use all 1TB space or will only 500GB usable data do for ur needs!!!!

i suggest you state your problem instead of offering possible solutions
 
Would suggest RAID 1 if you are using the on-board RAID. In this case RAID 5 would be very slow for you.

Do a 1Tb x 2 or a 500G x 2. The data loss of RAID 0 with the speed benefit, is usually not worth it if you have any data like photos/ videos/ documents etc.
 
bascially the purpose is OS and gaming
hav an external 1TB as storage...

tired of this old 250gb hdd and its kreeek kreeek in the middle of gaming(i kno this sound cannot be avoided)...

also, any suggestions on how to raid the hdd's... ?
 
Im on the same boat.
Is it possible to do a 100GB short-stroked RAID 1 partition on the 2*500GB setup?
Also, do different hard disks have adverse affect on failure or performance factors? Example: 7200.11 Seagate 500GB 32MB cache -raid1- 7200.12 Seagate 500GB 16MB cache is good?

Just like the OP i plan to keep only the games on the 100GB raided partition.
I plan to keep OS and other data on non-raid partitions amounting to 900GB.
 
Get a good quality RAID controller. On-board controllers aren't that good, and if the controller fails, you'll be in a soup trying to find a replacement.
 
Onboad RAID controllers are fine for RAID0/1.

You would need to get into your RAID BIOS to configure it. If you are not comfortable around the RAID BIOS get someone to do it for you.

Heres some generic instructions. Will change depending on the model of the RAID controller in your motherboard.

1) Connect both the drives to the motherboard.
2) During boot, press the required key combination to get into the RAID BIOS. This key combination flashes while booting. You can also consult the manual of the RAID BIOS to get it. Its Ctrl+S for my controller I think.
3) Choose "Create new RAID array"
4) Choose the type of RAID that you want - RAID0/1.
5) Choose the 2 500GB hard disks that will be a part of the array.
6) Choose other settings - cluster size .etc.
7) Confirm and create the array.

Windows should see this new hard disk volume next time you boot.
 
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