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Codinerx   08-08-2002 at 08:48:25 PM

Hello friends. I currently have two 20gb hdds running on RAID 0 (onboard RAID) and I am curious as to if buying two more 20's will make a significant difference in performance? Thanks for any input, it is greatly appreciated.

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camieabz   08-09-2002 at 12:48:18 AM
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Assuming you mean running all four in a 20GB x 4 = 80Gb RAID 0 array, then theoretically you have 8MB of cache to call upon. Personally (and I've recently been through this), I'd go for a RAID 0+1 config so you not only get RAID 0 from your 2 x 20GB, but you also get RAID 1 mirroring from the other two. Seems a bit of a waste, but believe me, when one of the drives goes down, you'll be glad of it.

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lhgpoobaa   08-09-2002 at 03:41:02 AM
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definately follow camie's advice. having 4 drives in just raid 0 will be great for performance, but your just asking for trouble...
0+1 will be far more secure!

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Cooj   08-09-2002 at 08:36:28 PM
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It all depends on what you're using your drives for. Personally I think using RAID 0+1 is a waste because basically all you're doing is backing up your original hd's when you can easily you some drive image programs or just keep a backup of your most important data. No need to waste money on extra drives when you can keep secure backups other cheaper ways.

Cooj

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camieabz   08-09-2002 at 09:08:32 PM
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Yup. I had drive image programs. Every two days I'd back an image up to another partition. Every month I'd back up to CD.

After a while you get complacent, becuse you either find it's a waste of CD-Rs or your CR-RW disks take too long to write. Either way, it's hard to get your entire system on to CD. Disk sets don't work for everyone.

So you relax. "It'll never happen to me". But it will.

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