Doctor Feelgood
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 Posted: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:05:07 Post Subject: |
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Hi!
You could do RAID 1 or RAID 0, but not RAID 10 (sometimes also listed as RAID 0+1) with your configuration. RAID 1 would have the two 500GB drives mirrored, so if one failed, the system could keep going. RAID 0 may be what you are interested in, and would increase read/write performance by accessing them with alternating bits of data (striping), but if one drive fails you will most likely lose everything.
RAID 10 requires 4 drives minimum, and is effectively a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1, with a pair of drives mirroring and a pair of drives striping.
Also - while it may be possible to go from your stand alone configuration to a RAID array with minimal effort, you may wind up having to start with a fresh install (probably wound up this way 9 times out of 10 myself). |
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