Doctor Feelgood
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 Posted: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:43:37 Post Subject: |
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What do you want? Speed or Redundancy?
With two hard drives (I assume its just the two listed), you can either do RAID 0 or RAID 1.
RAID 0 is for speed... Data is written to both drives sequentially in small blocks, but as if it were one drive, so it can do it much faster. Full drive capacity is still available. Great for reading/writing alot of big files, and perhaps less so for demanding games. But, if 1 drive fails... all data is lost!
RAID 1 is for redundancy... All data is written to both drives at the same time. Drive capacity is cut in half, since both drives are now identical. If one drive fails, the system will continue running on the good drive... A replacement can then be added to the array, and it will be rebuilt to be identical to the other. What I use on my two main machines now (with plans for RAID 0+1). |
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