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October 16, 2005 at 2:39 pm

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BioTech

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Anyone know how easy it is to set up Raid with 2 S-ATA HDD’s?

And what configuration would I want for speeding up data access? RAID1 or RAID2? I’m guessing mirroring would be the best way?

I’m quite a computer novice. So nothing too advanced please.
October 16, 2005 at 8:03 pm

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BioTech

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Ok. So it’s RAID 0 I need for super performance.

I’ve worked that out. But it can’t be just a case of whacking the two sata drives in and plugging them in. What would I have to do in the BIOS to make it RAID 0?
October 16, 2005 at 11:38 pm

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BioTech

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And what about raid controller. Is it sufficient or will I need something more expensive (i hope not!!)

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=2PNS&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=raid+controller&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=4294963789

And will it be compatible with a sckt 939 AMD64 CPU Using an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard? Or does it not really matter about compatibility.

Thanks in advance.
October 17, 2005 at 5:43 am

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Holeydel

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BioTech wrote:

I’m quite a computer novice. So nothing too advanced please.

Some novice, I still have trouble with my orange Spellchecker from back in the day.
October 17, 2005 at 11:29 am

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BioTech

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Never mind. I’ve decided to save the money on setting up a raid configuration and just get 2gb of ram instead. I’m told I wont see that much of a speed increase with the Raid set up as opposed to just using the 1 sata HDD.
October 17, 2005 at 7:37 pm

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Acidfairy

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Olly I’ll ask Graham, he builds pc etc and i’ll let you know what he says he’s got internet probs at the mo otherwise i’d tell him to look on here but it should all be back up for Fridays show

Peace out
October 17, 2005 at 8:59 pm

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BioTech

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Thanks mate! Too late though. Already bought 2gb of Crucuial Balistix memory instead of the raid set up.

I’d still be interested to know what he thinks though.
October 18, 2005 at 9:28 am

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General Lighting

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Not sure what you intend to do with this machine but TBH I’d say you are far better off with the RAM upgrade.

The main reason I’ve come across for using RAID is for business critical data, where the two drives store exactly the same data so if one goes down the system still keeps running.

It therefore does find its way into multimedia production and playout systems, but usually only so the station doesn’t lose its adverts of go off air if there is a disk crash.

All hard drives sold since about 2001 or so seem perfectly capable dealing with high data transfer rates including full quality DV video.
October 18, 2005 at 10:26 am

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BioTech

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Yeah that’s what I thought RE: Modern HDD.

But someone (a computer whizz) told me they have a RAID set up running as raid0 (striping) and it makes file access lightning quick as the two drives are seen as 1 but can work independantly of each other. So accessing many files at once is more efficient. Running in RAID 0 gives you no stability or backup. If 1 drive loses data or goes down then they both do.

But yeah. I think the extra ram was the better option at the end of the day. Saved about £50 too.
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