Hi, I have an Alienware XPS System i7 820 or 920CPU w/12G Ram & I have been considering the pros & cons of the different RAID configurations, many as there are! My system has 2x1Tb 7200 Seagates in RAID0 as my OS & I have 2 x SSDs, 1 is a 250 Gb Samsung 840 series, & the other a C300 Micron 128Gb. I do a lot of DVD editing & quite a stack of drives I am trying to clean up & organise a bit better. I have about 6x 500G 2.5 HDDs, 3x640G 5400rpm, 2x1.5Tb WDs 7200rpm & the above SSDs + 1x OCZAgility3 240Gb that has never worked from new. ( I am hoping I might be able to re flash it somehow & get it working one day to add to something. I recently got a Nexstar 4bay hot swappable RAID Tower, think I might JBOD some of them here maybe.
Q1. Can I split the partition of the Samsung to get 2x125Gb on one drive for a RAID0 &/or 1setup?
Q2. If so, could I then use the 128 as a 125G drive in series with the Samsung RAID0 ?(3x125Gb)
Q3. If Q1 is so, can I split the 128G into 2x64Gb Partitions as RAID0 & Samsung as RAID1? To get some extra speed & speedy redundancy, & then maybe backup to 2x external HDDs, mirrored data on each but not as RAID configuration for extra redundancy.
Thanks for any help, thoughts or answers to these questions in advance.
Q1. Can I split the partition of the Samsung to get 2x125Gb on one drive for a RAID0 &/or 1setup?
Q2. If so, could I then use the 128 as a 125G drive in series with the Samsung RAID0 ?(3x125Gb)
Q3. If Q1 is so, can I split the 128G into 2x64Gb Partitions as RAID0 & Samsung as RAID1? To get some extra speed & speedy redundancy, & then maybe backup to 2x external HDDs, mirrored data on each but not as RAID configuration for extra redundancy.
Thanks for any help, thoughts or answers to these questions in advance.