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First a little background:
I'm upgrading my dinasaur of a desktop and putting a little more RAM and a RAID controller in it. I have a lot of pictures and music that is getting too large to backup to DVD's and my other drives. And honestly i'm getting too lazy to continually do a 'manual' backup every week.
I am looking to get a RAID controller to put on the PCI bus of my desktop. I plan on getting a controller that is capable of RAID 0/1/5 and plan on using RAID 1 at first.
These two drives would be SATAII and would just be used for storage. My OS will still be on my drives that are on the 0/1 channels of the MB.
Now the questions:
1. Is there any reduction in access speed when comparing IDE to the PCI bus? (eventually might put an OS on the drive just for the sake of being able to load up the PC on the drive)
2. What about PCI Express? Express x8?
3. I've read that unless you drop 200+ on a RAID controller it really isn't going to 'lessen the load' on the processor when working, is that true?
4. Since i'm just doing RAID 1 there is no 'array' correct? So if i lose a drive i don't have to rebuild the array and I could plug that drive into any computer right? What i'm worried about is the controller burning out and i've read with RAID 5 you have to purchase the same model in order to rebuild the array, but if I only use RAID 1 there is just a mirror image.
Thanks for any input.
I'm upgrading my dinasaur of a desktop and putting a little more RAM and a RAID controller in it. I have a lot of pictures and music that is getting too large to backup to DVD's and my other drives. And honestly i'm getting too lazy to continually do a 'manual' backup every week.
I am looking to get a RAID controller to put on the PCI bus of my desktop. I plan on getting a controller that is capable of RAID 0/1/5 and plan on using RAID 1 at first.
These two drives would be SATAII and would just be used for storage. My OS will still be on my drives that are on the 0/1 channels of the MB.
Now the questions:
1. Is there any reduction in access speed when comparing IDE to the PCI bus? (eventually might put an OS on the drive just for the sake of being able to load up the PC on the drive)
2. What about PCI Express? Express x8?
3. I've read that unless you drop 200+ on a RAID controller it really isn't going to 'lessen the load' on the processor when working, is that true?
4. Since i'm just doing RAID 1 there is no 'array' correct? So if i lose a drive i don't have to rebuild the array and I could plug that drive into any computer right? What i'm worried about is the controller burning out and i've read with RAID 5 you have to purchase the same model in order to rebuild the array, but if I only use RAID 1 there is just a mirror image.
Thanks for any input.