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Z Man
I just set up two 250GB 8MB cache hard drives for RAID (Promise 2+0
Stripe/RAID0). It's pretty cool having 465GB as one drive letter, and let's
say they are faster than two separate hard drives (I have not benchmarked
them yet), but there is a catch. If either drive goes bad, or if my
motherboard goes bad, I loose all data on both drives, correct? If the same
drives were individually configured, if one went bad, I would still have the
other, and if my motherboard went bad, I could simply mount the drives in
another XP box and move the data over. I am a big fan of backup, but it
won't be easy backing up a drive this size, unless I purchase one or two
more external 250GB hard drives.
[Interestingly, both the Maxtor and WD drives included literature stating
unequivocally that XP will not recognize drives this size without using he
including controller card, but this motherboard services 250GB drives on a
no problemo basis.]
Is the increase in operating throughput worth the risk? I am using my
machine for general home web surfing and email, Microsoft Office, and (most
recently) video editing, specifically, converting my old analog 8mm tapes to
DVD. I have a P4/1600, 4GB PC2100 ram, Atlas 15k 73GB hard drive, a couple
of DVD burners, etc.
Stripe/RAID0). It's pretty cool having 465GB as one drive letter, and let's
say they are faster than two separate hard drives (I have not benchmarked
them yet), but there is a catch. If either drive goes bad, or if my
motherboard goes bad, I loose all data on both drives, correct? If the same
drives were individually configured, if one went bad, I would still have the
other, and if my motherboard went bad, I could simply mount the drives in
another XP box and move the data over. I am a big fan of backup, but it
won't be easy backing up a drive this size, unless I purchase one or two
more external 250GB hard drives.
[Interestingly, both the Maxtor and WD drives included literature stating
unequivocally that XP will not recognize drives this size without using he
including controller card, but this motherboard services 250GB drives on a
no problemo basis.]
Is the increase in operating throughput worth the risk? I am using my
machine for general home web surfing and email, Microsoft Office, and (most
recently) video editing, specifically, converting my old analog 8mm tapes to
DVD. I have a P4/1600, 4GB PC2100 ram, Atlas 15k 73GB hard drive, a couple
of DVD burners, etc.