To RAID or not to RAID?

[jaimegmr]

I have a soyo dragon plus motherboard that has two RAID connectors. I guess I would be able to connect 2 drives to each for a total of four. I currently have only one 60GB drive but on the normal IDE connector. If I were to get another 3 drives, What benefits would setting them up as a RAID give me as opposed to having all 4 on the normal IDE connectors?


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[elzt]

You can have only one drive for each RAID connector (IDE channel) if you want to set up a RAID array. Also the benefits would depend on whether you want RAID0 or RAID1 configurations.

 

[Abbo]

Sorry, but I don´t agree. I´m pretty sure you can use 2 HDs on each RAID channel. You might want to check out
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20011023/index.html
The performance difference between how many drives you add in the RAID are very well explained in the benchmarks.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

Well you can run them as standard drives on the raid channels. which is easy to do, or setup a raid array.

Read the RAID FAQ for info.

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[upec]

The benefit will depend what are you going to run on the system.