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Jun 4th, 2005 at 12:47pm

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Hello all! I'm bored and looking for something to do....

My motherboard supports RAID setup, and I happen to have two 40GB hard drives that are identical.....

Would I gain anything if I put the sim on it's own raid setup? Would I be less likely to loose my files if I had them on a raid setup?

Currently I'm running FS on my main drive (120GB) and I will backup the sim folders to a backup 40GB drive in the system.

What are your thoughts?
 
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Reply #1 - Jun 4th, 2005 at 1:18pm

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The point about how likely you are to lose files depends on what RAID striping you choose. RAID0 (Half on each drive) will make it quite noticably faster I would think, RAID1 is like an auto back up facility. Go ahead and do it mate, if only for a laugh!  Wink
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Reply #2 - Jun 4th, 2005 at 1:41pm

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Yes you do gain probability on to loose data on RAID0 ecause data is on 2 hard drives, 1 fails its all gone ALL. Its also the fastest.  You will get performance increase.
 
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