raid on abit kr7a ?

[chippy]

here it is

i have 2 h/d on ide1 (master slave) and ide 2 i have my cdwriter and dvdr105.............i`m lookin about buyin a 120gig hard drive aswell...........what i need to know is anything or evryting on raid sripping/mirroring....i know jack sh*t about it !!!!!

what r the advantages of havin ur drives configured this way or would u just go for hd 1/2 on ide 3 (raid channel) and the new 120 gigger on ide 4????????????

like i say i know not alot about this ......just lookin to learn a little

any links tutorials would b greatly appreciated

thanks

chippy

[Violator]

RAID 0 is striping. RAID 1 is mirroring. RAID 0+1 is striping plus mirroring.

RAID 0 is beneficial only if you have a high level of drive I/O. Because the data is 'striped' across two or more drives it improves access times providing the drives are on seperate controllers. It offers no redundancy, so basically if one of the drives fails, or the stripe set becomes corrupted, you're pretty much screwed.

RAID 1 is the least efficient. However it does offer 100% redundancy, and performance is improved by the fact that 2 reads are possible opposed to a single disk. However general performance will not be much better (if at all) from a single drive system.

Actually, go have a look here. It explains each RAID level and what it's pros and cons are. However, you'll be limited to 0, 1 or 0+1 without a seperate hardware controller.

[chippy]

thanks for the reply

the link supplied all the necessary info.........i now know alot more than i did b4 .......i`ll wait while i get my new h/d and have an experimentin sesh !! (due for a reformat anyways !!)


thanks again man

chippy