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Wats RAID? Do I have Raid? Should I Have RAID? Do I need RAID?

all i know is from some1 that RAID is there u make more than 2 hard drive 1
well make the comp think its one hard drive

This is my setup Below

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RAID is when the hard drives are link together as 1 drive (as windows sees it).

Types of RAID:
RAID0: splits data across 2 drives to make faster and increase space
RAID1: Mirrors the first drive for data security.

There are other kinds, but they are based off of RAID 0 and RAID 1

RAID will allow you to have all your data on one partition (even if spread across multiple drives)
You need to have the same size drive. You could do a RAID with those 68GB drives. You would probably want RAID 0 to get the performance increase.

Wiki article that explains it well

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RAID is essentially Redundant Array of Independent Disks or something...
Basically the computer recognizes 2 or more hard drives as one which increases the speed and performance of the drives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

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You don't need raid but its nice to have. Iddo a RAID0 to inprove speed. Its liek overclocking the HDD's

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raid0 is pretty nice when moving large downloaded files from on folder to the other foldre on the same partition

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To answer one of your questions: No, you don't have RAID right now, but you could.

I would suggest Raid 0 for faster access. I'm using it right now and I love it. I have two 320GB hard drives set up in Raid 0, which makes disk accesses about twice as fast.

However, if either one of these drives fails, then I lose all of my "data". That's why I have a third 750GB drive where I store my data. The 2x320GB Raid 0 is just for my Operating System and programs, so that things like booting and loading games will be faster.

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So even with Raid 0, windows will see one 640 gb HDD but the data will be split into two(2x320).

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Yeah, it stripes the data between the two so that it can theoretically transfer twice as fast.

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CorryBasler

yes thats correct!

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karan.t

So if i put raid 0
it will see my paritions as 1 drive
and not 2

so it might install some important system files on 1 hard drive and some on the other thinking its to same

so if 1 hard drive fails that program or os fails too if the files are on both hard drive?

thats wat i am afird of

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