Question on RAID 0

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 5:13 pm

when stripping the 2 drives as one can i have multiple partitions on them or no?

m4a2t0t · Post by **m4a2t0t** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 5:31 pm

smaier69 · Post by **smaier69** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 5:32 pm

yes. anything you can do to a striped array you can do to a regular volume (i.e. dual boot, partitions, etc). as far as your computer past the RAID controller is concerned, its just another hard drive.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 5:55 pm

thanks.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 6:32 pm

Yes, since RAID is handled at the hardware level...once you're done configuring it RAID 0, 1, 5, whatever....the OS will see it as simply one big hard drive...you run FDISK or whatever you run, and it's treated just like one single hard drive...so you partition to your hearts content just like any other single HD.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 6:58 pm

:2cool:

hmmmmmmm now i am in chuckdees boat, well not now, but i will be in a month.

80 gigs as 1 drive or 4 20 gigers. hmmmm

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 7:20 pm

I usually do a 75% C, 25% D....or visa versa...depending on your storage needs of keepsakes between formats.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 7:26 pm

Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
I usually do a 75% C, 25% D....or visa versa...depending on your storage needs of keepsakes between formats.

i'm thinking 20 for OS and software
20 for games
20 for videos and songs
20 for backup

monkeyhead · Post by **monkeyhead** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 7:35 pm

only thing is.... one little thing goes wrong with one hard drive entire array is gone...as you may remember i talked to you about RAID before.... mine crashed twice.... and my hard drives were IBM's only gxp not part of the class action suit... the 60's.... twice i lost a lot of ****... the second time backed up of course

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 7:38 pm

Originally posted by michaelanthony
only thing is.... one little thing goes wrong with one hard drive entire array is gone...as you may remember i talked to you about RAID before.... mine crashed twice.... and my hard drives were IBM's only gxp not part of the class action suit... the 60's.... twice i lost a lot of ****... the second time backed up of course

20 gig backup so i can reformat and store stuff there, i'd keep all my important **** on a CD

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 7:40 pm

Going on two years on both my RAID 0 arrays. If you have a single large drive and it goes bad you're screwed too...technically you can argue RAID 0 gives you twice the chance to blow up...but build them right with good drives...maintain your array well, and it's all good. Plus the performance gain is just simply incredible.

If you have critical stuff, back it up properly and a crash won't take you down for long if it happens.

The idea of RAID 0 is not supposed to be redundancy....redundancy is RAID 1 mirroring. RAID 0 is for performance boost. People always saying "RAID 0 isn't safe, one drive crashes... and you're out"...I reply:"Well...DUH...if I wanted safey, I'd be doing RAID 1..but I want performance, which is why I'm doing RAID 0." If you want both performance and uptime....you've gotta open up your wallet and go with 3 drives and RAID 5, or 4 drives and RAID 0 + 1.

monkeyhead · Post by **monkeyhead** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 7:40 pm

why dont you do RAID 0+1...... performance and backup

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 7:42 pm

Originally posted by michaelanthony
why dont you do RAID 0+1...... performance and backup

if i lose the raid array or whatever wont they be all wiped out?

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 8:07 pm

Originally posted by YARDofSTUF

if i lose the raid array or whatever wont they be all wiped out?

no, that's 'the idea of raid 10

you have 4 drives, 2 are raided, 2 are backup for those 2 something like that

AMPLIFRIER · Post by **AMPLIFRIER** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 8:13 pm

i have 80 in a striped array

5 partitions

love it :-)

AMP

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 2:59 pm

Originally posted by Brent

no, that's 'the idea of raid 10

you have 4 drives, 2 are raided, 2 are backup for those 2 something like that

i'd need 4 HDDs tho right?

m4a2t0t · Post by **m4a2t0t** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 3:21 pm

i think u can use 3 HDD's on raid 0+1

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 3:38 pm

that dont help if i only have 2 lol

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 4:22 pm

RAID 0 + 1requires 4 HD's...you take two pairs of HD's that are each striped....and you mirror those two striped arrays.

So....4 HD's....A, B, C, and D.

Stripe A and B together into 1, stripe C and D together into 2, then mirror 1 and 2 to make the large single array.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 4:27 pm

i aint spending 360 bucks on HDDs lol

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 4:32 pm

Originally posted by YARDofSTUF
i aint spending 360 bucks on HDDs lol

Yeah I don't figure the average home person spending that.

Just imagine though...RAID 0 + 1 with those new WD Special Edition 100 gig drives...that each have 8 megs of cache....305 bucks each. 1200 bucks for an array with 32 megs of cache total...LOL....droooooool....

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 4:41 pm

Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat

Yeah I don't figure the average home person spending that.

Just imagine though...RAID 0 + 1 with those new WD Special Edition 100 gig drives...that each have 8 megs of cache....305 bucks each. 1200 bucks for an array with 32 megs of cache total...LOL....droooooool....

oh ya its nice to think of but damn, 90 bucks for 2 40gig maxtors 7200 ata133 with 2megs cache is good for me!