Anyone running RAID on P4P800 Deluxe.

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I have 4 EIDE drives all Western Digital:

160gb
120gb
40gb x2

They are on the VIA RAID controller NOT using RAID.
I have 2 CDRW'S on the standard IDE controllers.


I am currently doing a lot of Digital Audio stuff converting vinyl to
CD, dumping 16 track tape to disk and so forth.

Would there be any advantage to me running the drives as a RAID set and
if so which one should I choose and how should I set the drives up?

Will they have to be reformatted if I go that way?

Suggestions are welcome!
 
I have 4 EIDE drives all Western Digital:

160gb
120gb
40gb x2

They are on the VIA RAID controller NOT using RAID.
I have 2 CDRW'S on the standard IDE controllers.


I am currently doing a lot of Digital Audio stuff converting vinyl to
CD, dumping 16 track tape to disk and so forth.

Would there be any advantage to me running the drives as a RAID set and
if so which one should I choose and how should I set the drives up?

Will they have to be reformatted if I go that way?

Suggestions are welcome!
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What you could do is make a RAID 0 out of those two 40 GB drives and have
that as your Windows drive.
 
I have 4 EIDE drives all Western Digital:
What you could do is make a RAID 0 out of those two 40 GB drives and have
that as your Windows drive.
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I wouldn't recommend that route. You might improve boot time, but little
else. In fact, it can be quite a nightmare to re-image a cloned system
partition/drive in the event of a broken stripe depending on the back-up
software and the OS. Besides, 40GB is plenty big for OS and software.

If I had your IDE's this is what I would do:

1X 40GB system/boot
1X 40GB back-up of above (not RAID1, but scheduled back-ups using Acronis)

160GB & 120GB in RAID0.....this would sacrifice 40GB from your big drive,
but if throughput is your priority then this is a small sacrifice.

Dave
 
If I had your IDE's this is what I would do:

1X 40GB system/boot
1X 40GB back-up of above (not RAID1, but scheduled back-ups using Acronis)

160GB & 120GB in RAID0.....this would sacrifice 40GB from your big drive,
but if throughput is your priority then this is a small sacrifice.
Click to expand...

And yes, you would lose everything is the set-up for RAID0. If you are
moving mostly large files, then larger stripe cluster sizes tend to be best.
 
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