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ahem   08-17-2009 at 05:53:44 AM

I have one SATA segate 80 gb as a c drive, oneSATA 640 gb hitachi deskstar 7k1000.b as a storage drive, and one EIDE 250 gb WD for backup purposes. What kind of RAID should i use and how do i implement w/out formatting my HDDS?

I have a mATX mobo w/ only 2 SATA ports available(both full), and one EIDE port available(full). I dont want to buy any new HDDS. I sorta want a balance between strorage and performance, leaning a bit towards storage.

Also, as a side thing, is hitachi a good brand and is 640 gb a good HDD size?

Thnks,
AHEM :)

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ahem wrote :

Can i partition me 640 in an 80/560 and use the 80 fro RAID. i use A LOT of multimedia

It depends entirely on the RAID controller. I believe you can do this sort of thing with the Intel ICH chipsets, but you should expect to have to backup and restore your data.

But why do you want to do this? Is it because your system is slow when you access the files? Is it possible that you don't have enough RAM and are paging heavily? If so, then RAID isn't going to help that much.

You should make sure you understand exactly what the problem is before spending time and effort trying to fix it...

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Bronze Storage badge r_manic   08-17-2009 at 10:22:48 AM

First off, why do you want to go RAID? Do you have any particular application where fast read and write speeds are paramount? In any case, building any kind of RAID array requires you clear the data from your hard disks... so back up everything you've got now!

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wuzy   08-17-2009 at 12:35:52 PM

In short, it sounds like you do not need RAID.
Read the RAID FAQ sticky for more info.

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Zenthar   08-17-2009 at 05:03:31 PM

RAID is not some performance silver bullet, the benefit is mostly in reading/writing large files like multimedia files. Moreover, most RAID require identical (or closely identical) drives to work.

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ahem   08-17-2009 at 05:22:10 PM

I apologize for sounding dtupid beforhand, but can i partition me 640 in an 80/560 and use the 80 fro RAID. i use A LOT of multimedia.

Sry.

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INSPECTOR71   08-17-2009 at 05:45:51 PM

your not stupid ..... i would take first place for stupidity for all the questions i ask and threads i start.

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Bronze Storage badge sminlal   08-17-2009 at 08:47:41 PM
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ahem wrote :

Can i partition me 640 in an 80/560 and use the 80 fro RAID. i use A LOT of multimedia

It depends entirely on the RAID controller. I believe you can do this sort of thing with the Intel ICH chipsets, but you should expect to have to backup and restore your data.

But why do you want to do this? Is it because your system is slow when you access the files? Is it possible that you don't have enough RAM and are paging heavily? If so, then RAID isn't going to help that much.

You should make sure you understand exactly what the problem is before spending time and effort trying to fix it...

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