Pata & Sata ?

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Would it be to my advantage to boot windows from a pata and use sata for
storage?

What I have now is two WD300 Gig SATA hard Drives running raid 0.
What I was thinking about doing is using my maxtor 40 GIG PATA to boot and
use the two WD300 H/D Raid 0 for storage.
 
mitchk5 said:
Would it be to my advantage to boot windows from a pata and use sata for
storage?

What I have now is two WD300 Gig SATA hard Drives running raid 0.
What I was thinking about doing is using my maxtor 40 GIG PATA to boot and
use the two WD300 H/D Raid 0 for storage.
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Your question alone indicates you should NOT be using RAID0 for ANYTHING!

RAID0 carries considerable risks with it. A single HD failure or OS burp could
render your entire RAID array inaccessible. While an OS can be re-installed
rather easily -- though with considerable time expenditure -- your data is much
more vulnerable.
 
what do you suggest?
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broke & broken


John R Weiss said:
Your question alone indicates you should NOT be using RAID0 for ANYTHING!

RAID0 carries considerable risks with it. A single HD failure or OS burp could
render your entire RAID array inaccessible. While an OS can be re-installed
rather easily -- though with considerable time expenditure -- your data is much
more vulnerable.
Click to expand...
 
How full is that 600 GB RAID0 array?

Backup ALL your data ASAP! If you have more than 200 GB of "stuff," offload as
much of the data as possible to external HD, another large internal HD, or DVD.
Buy Norton Ghost or Acronis TrueImage plus an external HD, and make an image of
the remaining system. Verify it can be restored.

Convert your current RAID0 array to a RAID1 array, then restore the image from
the external HD.

Use the 40 GB PATA for auxiliary storage or data backup.
 
How full is that 600 GB RAID0 array?

Backup ALL your data ASAP! If you have more than 200 GB of "stuff,"
offload as much of the data as possible to external HD, another large
internal HD, or DVD. Buy Norton Ghost or Acronis TrueImage plus an
external HD, and make an image of the remaining system. Verify it can be
restored.

Convert your current RAID0 array to a RAID1 array, then restore the image
from the external HD.
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RAID1 carries certain risks, too. If the source drive becomes corrupt or
contracts a virus, the mirror is also affected. The dire warning to backup
data ASAP should be the standard battle cry regardless of the drive
arrangement.

I've run RAID0 on C: (36gb Raptors) for 18 months with no issues, and
recently set up another for my storage volume (250gb x 2). Both are run
from on-chip and on-board controllers on the motherboard. I do heavy photo
and video editing and find the speed increase an important advantage. I do
backup important files hourly and automatically with batch files and clone
C: once per week, rotating five drives in mobile racks, one off-site. I
would do this if I was running single drives, as my business is on this
computer. I also have three copies of photo archives in separate external
drives, one off-site.

Part of the decision to use RAID0 on my storage volume (D:) was cost. A
single 500gb drive is ~$315, a 400gb $200, and two 250's cost me $200.
Since the controller was already in place there was no extra cost for it.
This has sped up PhotoShop noticeably because D: is the designated scratch
disk.

I wouldn't recommend it for most people, but there is a place for RAID0 for
some applications. If either of these arrays fails I can recover in <30
min.
 
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