raid question p4p800

[lucky]

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newbie to raid but am tired of worrying about drives crashing. I read on
page 5-25 of the manual about raid 0 1 and 0+1. I can't understand why
anyone would want anything other than 0+1. What am I missing?

My goal is to have 2 exact duplicates of my data 'on the fly.' It sounds
like that's what raid is supposed to do. It's not that I have such
valuable data, it just seems to be the best way for me to 'back up'
because I don't want to do incremental backups.

Will I be able to do 0+1 if I have a smaller drive I want to install to
the 2 new 80 gig drives? And is it best to 'install' the old drive
separately to each new drive?

Thanks!

 

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i have a spare ide drive which i just image the data across in about 2 mins

"lucky" <luckydriver@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> newbie to raid but am tired of worrying about drives crashing. I read on
> page 5-25 of the manual about raid 0 1 and 0+1. I can't understand why
> anyone would want anything other than 0+1. What am I missing?
>
> My goal is to have 2 exact duplicates of my data 'on the fly.' It sounds
> like that's what raid is supposed to do. It's not that I have such
> valuable data, it just seems to be the best way for me to 'back up'
> because I don't want to do incremental backups.
>
> Will I be able to do 0+1 if I have a smaller drive I want to install to
> the 2 new 80 gig drives? And is it best to 'install' the old drive
> separately to each new drive?
>
> Thanks!
>

 

[lucky]

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how do you do that?

CSX wrote:

> i have a spare ide drive which i just image the data across in about 2 mins

 

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lucky wrote:

> newbie to raid but am tired of worrying about drives crashing. I read on
> page 5-25 of the manual about raid 0 1 and 0+1. I can't understand why
> anyone would want anything other than 0+1. What am I missing?
>
> My goal is to have 2 exact duplicates of my data 'on the fly.' It sounds
> like that's what raid is supposed to do. It's not that I have such
> valuable data, it just seems to be the best way for me to 'back up'
> because I don't want to do incremental backups.
>
> Will I be able to do 0+1 if I have a smaller drive I want to install to
> the 2 new 80 gig drives? And is it best to 'install' the old drive
> separately to each new drive?
>
> Thanks!
>
People use RAID 0 for system performance. It increase hard drive read
time by as much as 30%.

It is recommended that you use matching hard drives.

 

[fred]

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Use Norton Ghost.


"lucky" <luckydriver@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> how do you do that?
>
> CSX wrote:
>
> > i have a spare ide drive which i just image the data across in about 2
mins
>

 

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"lucky" <luckydriver@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> newbie to raid but am tired of worrying about drives crashing. I read on
> page 5-25 of the manual about raid 0 1 and 0+1. I can't understand why
> anyone would want anything other than 0+1. What am I missing?

Well RAID 0 gives you double the speed and full capacity of your HDs.

> My goal is to have 2 exact duplicates of my data 'on the fly.' It sounds
> like that's what raid is supposed to do. It's not that I have such
> valuable data, it just seems to be the best way for me to 'back up'
> because I don't want to do incremental backups.

That's RAID 1.

> Will I be able to do 0+1 if I have a smaller drive I want to install to
> the 2 new 80 gig drives? And is it best to 'install' the old drive
> separately to each new drive?

You'll be able to do it on your two new drives, obviously.

 

[lucky]

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Darkfalz wrote:

>
>
> That's RAID 1.
>
>
>>Will I be able to do 0+1 if I have a smaller drive I want to install to
>>the 2 new 80 gig drives? And is it best to 'install' the old drive
>>separately to each new drive?
>
>
> You'll be able to do it on your two new drives, obviously.
>
>

Do I install my old stuff to the new drive THEN install the raid drivers
from the CD and install or do I wait to make the array then copy the
stuff onto the C drive which is already in the array. If it's the
latter, then I don't get how I can use the western digital disk to make
the copy I need since I believe when you do a fresh install, it erases
everything on the new drive and wouldn't the array run into a problem?