Raid/SATA configuration

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Greetz All,

Can someone shed a little light for me here. I have a 250gb SATA drive along
with a 120GB SATA I would like to run these as a raid array. (think thats
right)
Is it possible to patition the 250gb drive eg. Partion the 250 into two use
one on the 125gb partitions as a standard drive and then have the other 125
working as raid.
I`ve looked at tons of stuff and to be honest i`ve melted my head. I mean
whats all this dynamic if a drive is dynamic that suggests to me that it
would be possible to partition. But does dynamic really mean dynamic !
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm See Melted Head LoL LoL LoL

What it bolis down to is I need some partions on my drives the thought of
just one big 250gb drive, drives me nuts how do you organise that.


Any help out there :O)


Rattz
 
Ideally the two drives need to be an identical pair, otherwise in a
Raid setup the larger disc will be limited to the size of the smaller
disc.

Hope this helps,

Stan
 
Can someone shed a little light for me here. I have a 250gb SATA drive along
with a 120GB SATA I would like to run these as a raid array. (think thats
right)
Is it possible to patition the 250gb drive eg. Partion the 250 into two use
one on the 125gb partitions as a standard drive and then have the other 125
working as raid.
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Hi,
I don't think so. If you used those two drives as a RAID-0 array you would
lose half the 250GB drives space. Best to use two identical drives. . .
..or. . .does your motherboard support more than two SATA disks?. . if it
does buy another 120GB and match it up with yours in a RAID-0 array, and
keep the 250GB drive for porn, no I mean data :P
 
Rattz said:
Greetz All,

Can someone shed a little light for me here. I have a 250gb SATA drive
along with a 120GB SATA I would like to run these as a raid array. (think
thats right)
Is it possible to patition the 250gb drive eg. Partion the 250 into two
use one on the 125gb partitions as a standard drive and then have the
other 125 working as raid.
I`ve looked at tons of stuff and to be honest i`ve melted my head. I mean
whats all this dynamic if a drive is dynamic that suggests to me that it
would be possible to partition. But does dynamic really mean dynamic !
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm See Melted Head LoL LoL LoL

What it bolis down to is I need some partions on my drives the thought of
just one big 250gb drive, drives me nuts how do you organise that.
Click to expand...

Around 1983 Microsoft incorporated an exciting new techonology into their
operating system. It was called a "directory". Their operating systems
still have this feature, although now it is called a "folder".

With regard to your other question, whether you can mix and match drive
sizes really depends on your host adapter. Some of the high-end models can
do what you want, most can't.

"Dynamic" is just a name, it does't have anything to do with the dictionary
definition of the word.
 
Rattz said:
Greetz All,

Can someone shed a little light for me here. I have a 250gb SATA drive along
with a 120GB SATA I would like to run these as a raid array. (think thats
right)
Is it possible to patition the 250gb drive eg. Partion the 250 into two use
one on the 125gb partitions as a standard drive and then have the other 125
working as raid.
Click to expand...

You *can* do this at a software level. Certainly Windows 2000 and above
allow it.

I've only ever used hardware RAID, but I have heard that the software
configuration, while you cannot boot from it, works very well.


Odie
 
Thanks folks for the input.
I didn't know that the ideally the drives should be equal to each other for
raid.
When I bought the base unit I gotta admit I didn't research sata or raid
configs at all . MB is an asus p4p800 so ide and two satas are available.
I didn't long since buy the pc and with it being high end it cost plenty so
buying another 250gb at the mo is out of the question (el skintus).
For the moment though it looks like I have the option of running sata as
raid ready with partitions or raid 0 without partitions.
I don't know about you lot,

but there is something to me that just doesn't seem right about such a large
partition even if it does have folders in it (john) LoL LoL

Once again thanks all

Russ
 
You *can* do this at a software level. Certainly Windows 2000 and above
allow it.
Click to expand...
I've only ever used hardware RAID, but I have heard that the software
configuration, while you cannot boot from it, works very well.
Click to expand...

Same with Linux (although you can boot the kernel from RAID1 there
and have any other raid level for the root-partition). Reliable and
flexible.

Arno
 
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