I'm planning a build to be purchased sometime in September, and am looking into RAID possibilities. My two preferred drives are the WD Caviar Black & Green 1TB drives. My budget allows for 2 of them at first, possibly 3, but that's a stretch.
1. Is it a bad idea to have my OS on a mirrored drive?
a) can I install the OS on a smaller partition of the drive (let's say 60GB) and mirror the other 940GB with the second drive?
2. Will a motherboard's on-board RAID controller (Asus P6T SE) struggle with a RAID 1 between different-speed HDD's? (Green vs Black)
I'm not too interested in RAID 0 because of its vulnerability to data-loss -- RAID 1 sounds nice in that it automatically and instantaneously backs up everything I have, while increasing read speed. However, a RAID 0+1, 1+0, or 5 might be a future endeavor.
1. Is it a bad idea to have my OS on a mirrored drive?
a) can I install the OS on a smaller partition of the drive (let's say 60GB) and mirror the other 940GB with the second drive?
2. Will a motherboard's on-board RAID controller (Asus P6T SE) struggle with a RAID 1 between different-speed HDD's? (Green vs Black)
I'm not too interested in RAID 0 because of its vulnerability to data-loss -- RAID 1 sounds nice in that it automatically and instantaneously backs up everything I have, while increasing read speed. However, a RAID 0+1, 1+0, or 5 might be a future endeavor.