To raid or not?

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Anyone running a raid configuration in their DAW?

What's the difference between raid 0 & raid 0+1?

I'm going to buy 2 80GB drives, and one of the MBs I'm looking at supports raid 0+1. I'm just wondering if there are any performance benefits to using raid
 
So where's the benefit of Raid? Is it used purely as a backup mechanism?
 
One advantage of a RAID setup is you can have all your IDE devices on separate channels. Two way data on a single IDE channel is a bottle neck. You can put your HD for OS and apps on channel one, your CD burner on channel two, and use the RAID as your data drive. Even if you don't set it up as a RAID, you can use the additional IDE channels for hard drives to store data.


Twist
 
twist said:
... Even if you don't set it up as a RAID, you can use the additional IDE channels for hard drives to store data.
Twist
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Using it just to get more than the standard four on IDE?
Wayne
 
ChezUK said:
http://www.acnc.com/04_00.html

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Raid 0 certainly does improve disk performance considerably, but whether applications run faster depends on how disk intensive they are.

HTH
Chez
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Thanks for the link Chez, that explains it in terms even I can understand.

Raid 0 gives superior performance, but at the risk of losing ALL you data if one drive fails. Not worth the risk imo.

What I think I'll do is partition each drive 10GB/70GB into C, D, E & F partitions. C will be a 10GB boot/programs partition on drive 1 which I can Ghost to E partition on drive 2. F will be my audio data partition on drive 2 which I can Ghost to D partition on drive 1. This way I seperate programs and audio data onto 2 differente drives and channels. Not as fast as Raid 0 but I have complete redundancy if one drive fries
 
mixsit said:
Using it just to get more than the standard four on IDE?
Wayne
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Yes. This configuration is called JBOD (just a bunch of drives) and will increase your capacity to 8 IDE devices. They're set up just like your standard primary and secondary Channels with master and slave if that's what you want.


Twist
 
while you lose all your data if a raid0 array fails, surely this is the same if your primary single drive fails?

I guess the greater risk is that you are using 2 drives, so the probability of failure increases (although, if you use good drives, reliability shouldn't be too much of an issue)
 
ChezUK said:


I guess the greater risk is that you are using 2 drives, so the probability of failure increases (although, if you use good drives, reliability shouldn't be too much of an issue)
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Sure but it doesn't matter. With the 2 drives I have complete redundancy for OS, programs & data
 
I run all my programs except my OS on a pair of raptors in raid O.


I back up onto a separate disk.
 
Raid for me too, but I have no idea how they worked. I just plugged them in, did some stuff with some cables and hoped for the best. I recall it being a gin to configure them. I've put all that behind me now.
 
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