Raid 0...raid 1 ??

[ThePCmaN]

what is...

RAID 1 (please go into a lil depth)


what is...

RAID 0 (please go into a lil depth)



THANKS!!!

 

[koldapu]

RAID 1 is the "mirroring" RAID. Basically, you have multiple hard drives and the data is mirrored onto each HDD (this is good for crucial data; in case one HDD gets corrupted or dies, you still have data on the other HDD; However, you lose a lot of performance)

RAID 0 is the "striping" RAID. This is where the data is divided up equally amongst the HDDs. Say you have 2 HDDs and 20GB of data. 10GB goes to HDD1 and the other 10GB goes to HDD2. You get a good performance boost (GOOD, NOT GREAT), but if one hard drive goes, you lose ALL YOUR DATA.


To sum it all up:

RAID 1 = Reliable but slow

RAID 0 = Fast but risky

 

[ThePCmaN]

so how exactly does a RAID work.. like is it difficult.. or is it the samething as runnin 1 harddrive and u just dont really know ur 2nd one is there until u search for a file or somethin..

thanks man!!

 

[koldapu]

RAID is either controlled by your motherboard (if it has a RAID controller) or a RAID controller card (PCI)

You must have 2 like-sized hard drives (i.e., a 160GB HDD with another 160GB HDD)

Basically, if you are doing RAID 0, the two HDDs "combine" to form one hard drive

I don't know about RAID 1 ... my guess is that there's a slave hard drive and a master hard drive, and when you're doing searches or something, it searches the master. Not too sure about this one

 

[jnev_89]

in raid1 you only see one hd (in the hd's size, ie if there were 2 80gb drives in raid1 you would only see one 80gb drive) and in raid0 you also only see one drive but it's the zie of both drives combined.

 

[ThePCmaN]

hmm.. does everything load up normal... and do u have to install the OS on both harddrives... or how do u go about that?

 

[hercules_upw]

On my mobo, you load the RAID drivers when you load windows. I think it says "press F6 if you need to load SCSI or RAID drivers..." . Any way you just install the operating system once and if you do it properly, everything will load normally.