How do I RAID?

foxylady · 06-12-2006, 10:38 PM

Can anyone explain simply to me how I RAID my hard drives?
Also what the difference is between different "flavors" of RAID, which one should I go for?

Sorry for the questions, I've just always been confused by RAID!

firestorm · 06-12-2006, 11:24 PM

RAID, just conifgured my uncles comp to RAID 1 yesterday. There are different versions of RAID. Just wrote about 20 lines and figured this would sum it up better. If you have any questions after this link, I'll be glad to go into more detail

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

-fire

Rosetta · 06-13-2006, 04:48 PM

firestorm, thank you for the link! I have it bookmarked so I can research it later. (I love tinkering around with stuff...)

foxylady · 06-15-2006, 01:14 AM

Thanks firestorm, that does clear things up!

So do you recommend using RAID1 over the other versions?
The others seem a little more advanced and complex.

firestorm · 06-15-2006, 10:19 AM

Well RAID 1 is more for back up purposes I guess you could say. What it does is takes two harddrives and views them as one(the same size, or the smallest one). They will have the same stuff on each disk, so if one HD fails you, the other one is the exact same thing, therefore you lose nothing but a HD.

The downside to RAID 1 is that isn't very keen on proformance. Since it is having to write to both HD's it takes a lil' longer. If you are into editing video, games, and stuff like that I wouldn't recommend it. But for the average user it is great.

For more preformance type stuff, use RAID 0.

McDaddy · 06-18-2006, 09:12 PM

the differant types of RAID store the information to the differant hard drives a little differant. but they are just back ups.

lets say i have 3 hard drives, i can do all my stuff on hdd 1 and have it fully backed up to drive 2 and again to drive 3

or i can do all my stuff on hdd 1 and have 2 copys of the first half backed up to drive 2 and the other half backed up twice on hdd 3.

there are other ways of doing things as well but i dont see the point really. if i were going to do one i would use RAID 1, the down side, if you get a virus and back up your stuff, then well you guessed, you just backed up the virus as well. persionally i just use a second hdd and coppy what i want over to it.

firestorm · 06-25-2006, 03:02 PM

I am going to switch to RAID 0 here shortly I think. The reason for RAID 1 is in the case of a HD failure. If you only have one harddrive and you get a virus your screwed anyway with out safety for HD failures. It's always a safe move to back up your files onto a seperate HD though

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