[pakapak]

i ve just brought 2 Maxtor 6L200M0 Diamond Max 10 200GB 7200RPM SATA/150 8MB Cache

i was thinking whether it would be worth setting them up in raid 0 or raid 1?

raid 0
would the performance be alot noticible and will the reliabilty drop by 50% seems alot??

raid 1
will it be no different to a single hard drive? and would the performance be slower?

thzanks

 

[GatorLCA]

For RAID 0, think about it this way, if you just keep them separate and lets say Windows goes down you still need to reformat the hard drive that had your stuff on it, basically losing whatever you had on there, no different than a signle drive, and RAID 1 gives you more security, but no perofrmance

RAID 0 - will give you more performance over RAID 1 (obviosuly), RAID 0 would be no different than a single hard drive, RAID 1 just copies what's on one HDD and mirrors it to the other, backing up your stuff as you go along. For the home user there's no reall reason to use RAID 1 if you can go RAID 0

 

[port187]

I'd go with raid 0 for the performance. Raid 1 is a waste of disk space if your using it for home use.

 

[port187]

Hope that helped.

 

[Bys0n]

I run raid0 on my raptors, the difference is really noticeable and if you play games online you will find you get in the server alot quicker, I have never had a problem with my raid 0

 

[pakapak]

cheerz thanks i will try to set up my hd with raid 0 i think i ll just back up important files with my seagate 200gb hd

now i gotta figure out how to set it up haha!

 

[timsvpr]

Raid 0 all the way. If you had two identical drives you might as well. There is no benefit if you were to use the drives seperately.

 

[briank]

I say forget RAID. I like having two seperate drives. Its nice to have a seperate swap drive for programs like Photoshop and Premiere as well as spreading your windows pagefile across two drives for a slight performance increase in windows. Also, I like to keep a copy of important files such as pictures on both disks to if one fails I don't lose those files.