take advantage of a partial stripe set. JBOD : Just a Bunch Of Drives. Not actually RAID, but some RAID controllers support this. In JBOD, 2 or more drives, which can be of any size, are put together so it appear as a single drive whose capacity is the sum...

your raid array to another board with ICH10R. Also, did you know about Intel's Matrix Raid? This simple feature alone should keep you from moving to hardware raid because you can create a Raid 0 array for the OS and a Raid 5 for file server all on the same...

depending on the "stripe" size, but that's the general idea). Secondly, I wouldn't refer to RAID 1 and RAID 5 has having extra "security" - in the computer world the word "security" has to do with protection data against theft. What RAID 1 and RAID 5 provide...

then with using a RAID 0 instead of the RAID 1 over the Native IDE. I do have one other disk that I can use as a back-up for the RAID 0 in case it fails. By the way, my disks are Seagate SATA II 250gb with 16mb cache size each which are RAID compatible. Here...

Cache Enabled: Yes RAID Level: RAID 5 (striping with parity) Strip Size: 64 KB Size: 894.1 GB Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes Number of Hard Drives: 4 Hard Drive Member 1: Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 Hard Drive Member 2: Hitachi...

Processor = Dual Core Intel Xeon 550 3.0Ghz 667Mhz FSB. Memory = 2 Gb Hard Drive Config: Raid 1. (2) 7200RPM 160Gb SATAii drives. I'm actually torn between raid 0 and 1 because our redundant backup requirements, see below. HD Controller SAS 5IR SAS internal...

Part 2: Performance and Data Security with RAID/RAID Without RAID," by Patrick Schmid [August 13, 2002] states: "RAID 0 and 1 are offered directly by Windows 2000 or Windows XP-as long as there are several hard drives." The article "RAID Without Additional...

generally generate lots of random reads (hits), some. some types of lighter databases (not involving heavy random write transactions), etc. If we are talking about RAID, RAID 0 is best when the stripe is aligned with the drive sector size, and the desired...