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Jul 18^th, 2005 at 8:19pm

Mobius Offline
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What effect does having dual drives in a RAID configuration have on a computer?

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Reply #1 - Jul 18^th, 2005 at 9:45pm

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Makes bootup and application loading times much faster, along with file search and any other HDD access. For gaming, it won't affect FPS, only load times.

I love my RAID0. I'm a wait-hater. To me it'd be like going back to dialup if I had to go back to a single drive.

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Reply #2 - Jul 18^th, 2005 at 10:10pm

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My reasoning for not having WinXP64 installed is because I am unable to get appropriate RAID drivers for my motherboard, and I won't go back to single drives... Even with SATA.

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Reply #3 - Jul 18^th, 2005 at 11:25pm

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Thanks for the responses. The reason I ask is I just got a 250 GB SATA HDD and after I got it I found out that my motherboard only supports SATA drives in RAID and I am trying to decide whether I should spend the $100 to get another drive or return it and get a different drive. ??? Tongue

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Reply #4 - Jul 18^th, 2005 at 11:45pm

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It is possible to have a one drive RAID set-up. DOn't know about the other types, but it can be done with RAID0.

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Reply #5 - Jul 19^th, 2005 at 2:00pm

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What effect does having dual drives in a RAID configuration have on a computer?

Thanks Wink

A RAID array will improve performence like mentioned above, although it depends on what raid mode you use: RAID1, RAID0 or RAID 0+1.

Though you won't get this with dual drives, RAID arrays in RAID 5 or 6 can with stand the loss of 1 or more hard drives and experience no data loss.

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