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    Ideas?

    Hello,

    I've just got a new setup:

    Q6600
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    Now i'm about to purchase the hard drives..

    I really wanted to use RAID as i know of the performance increases..

    However,

    I wanted to use 0+1 but i think i'm right in saying that 4 HDD's are required to use this RAID config..

    I was wondering whether it would be very affective using it with the dual boot..

    I'm not entirely sure how it works, i think it's all four drives striped with mirroring but not entirely sure, please correct me if i'm wrong..

    I'm also aware that partitioning isn't a problem neither when using RAID configurations, i really wanted to just make two partitions, XP being a smaller partition and will be mainly used as a backup incase anything goes wrong in Vistax64..

    Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated,

    Thanks,
    Iain.

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    Re: Ideas?

    1.) there are about 30 thread this month discussing raid - have a read through them
    2.) as said in many threads (see above) if you have to ask about raid, you PROBABLY won't be one of the people who tunes their machine enough to get any performance increase out of raid.
    3.) for 0+1 you don't need 4 disks
    4.) Dual boot as nothing to do with raid unless your using an operating system that doesn't support your "fake raid" driver on home PC kit.
    5.) partition is not a problem
    6.) striped and mirrored? ?? not quite sure what your getting at. you should be really interested in 0 or 1. 0 is a stripe across multiple drives - 1 is drive mirroring. You could go into 5 but you're going to lose one disk and unless the drives are all the same size, its a bit of waste.

    do you REALLY need/want raid. I strongly advise you to ask your self this as well as reading the multiple threads on raid that have been posted this week.
    It is Inevitable.....


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