RAID question?

Ice8168 · 07-19-2007, 07:22 PM

Ok well the other RAID question got me to thinking. For my next build, which will occur shortly, I will be using two 250gb Seagate 7200.10's. I would like to set these two drives up in a RAID 0 config, however, I also have an extra WD 250gb lying around so I figured that I would throw that in there to copy and store information in case of a loss of failure in the RAID'ed drives.

My question is, is this possible?

I have never fooled with any type of RAID setup so am clueless how to set it up. Are the drives RAIDed in BIOS before windows install. Cause in RAID 0 the install would be on both drives correct? Also once windows is installed do both drives just show in windos as one drive?

fade2black2004 · 07-19-2007, 07:37 PM

RAID 5 is good for you
its basically RAID 0 + 1

Ice8168 · 07-19-2007, 10:26 PM

Well great. Thanks. Now can you expaline to me how that works and how I would go about setting that up on my new machine.

Gabb · 07-19-2007, 10:39 PM

will I need a floppy drive to raid 0 2 seagates 7200.10s?

AP4LIFETN · 07-19-2007, 10:42 PM

i needed a floppy drive to install them before os installation

Ice8168 · 07-19-2007, 11:09 PM

OK WTH your guys talking about. Will I hve to put RAID drivers on a floppy to configure the system. Someone please splain it to me...

OnlyCurious · 07-19-2007, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ice8168

OK WTH your guys talking about. Will I hve to put RAID drivers on a floppy to configure the system. Someone please splain it to me...

ROFL!!! dude you sound so demanding... HAHAHAHA

Ice8168 · 07-19-2007, 11:46 PM

Dont mean to be demanding. Funny that you took it like that. O well all in good fun. OK back to the subject at hand anyone...

Ice8168 · 07-19-2007, 11:52 PM

Ok I wiki'd RAID 5 and now im really lost. I guess what I was trying to state woth my first quest was could I RAID 0 the two Seagate drives for faaster perfomance and them install the WD drive and used as a seperate secondary storage. I want the WD available just to move information on to, and not really set up into any type of automatic information storage (RAID 5). Am I making any sense here?
To OnlyCurious- No demand intended here

vernong1992 · 07-20-2007, 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ice8168

Ok I wiki'd RAID 5 and now im really lost. I guess what I was trying to state woth my first quest was could I RAID 0 the two Seagate drives for faaster perfomance and them install the WD drive and used as a seperate secondary storage. I want the WD available just to move information on to, and not really set up into any type of automatic information storage (RAID 5). Am I making any sense here?
To OnlyCurious- No demand intended here

raid5 requires a floppy drive if ur using 2k or XP, Vista lets u use a different source like CD/DVD, thumb drive and floppy

raid5: data security w/ performance

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