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Originally Posted by Skooma  Thanks!
Could you give me a quick run through of what you do in order to set up RAID? (or JBOD, i'll have to google this and have a read) I'm not asking for a huge tutorial (or a link to one) if you could just give the rough steps involved, so i will have an idea if i would like to go that route or not. One thing i'm concerned about is drivers, a big question is are they motherboard specific? because if they are there's probably no hope of me getting them for this dell, and i doubt they're included on the CD. |
JBOD means Just a Bunch Of Disk. It's for people who have different sized hard drives, and just want them all combined into one big hard drive.
The rough steps to setup RAID is:
The basic steps are, making a RAID driver floppy disk. Then install the hard drives, go into BIOS, and setup the RAID array you want. In that case RAID 0. Then restart the computer, insert the Windows cd, and at the blue screen, when it says to press F6 to install RAID drivers, you press F6, and insert the RAID floppy disk. Follow instructions, and install Windows as normal.
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Originally Posted by Zachalmighty Since Im in this topic, Id lock to ask what RAID 0 is? Is it some sort of master-slave drive configuration? |
Zachalmighty,
RAID 0 is known as stripping. It's having two disk seen as one hard drive. This will boost performance, because information is being written and read, from two hard drives at the same time, rather than one.