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Jan 30, 2007, 02:40 PM
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Howlin at the moon
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Sunderland, UK
Posts: 1,497
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Raid help, pleeeease
Tonight im going to unleash the evil that is Vista 32 retail, I walked into the shop and picked up an OEM copy for £72.
Ok DH people I need a little advice with a Raid setup.
Gotta clear something up first I have a AN9 32X board which supports Raid setups, do I setup my Raid using the bios or as part of the windows vista setup.
Ok what im working with hardware wise:
2X160GB Samsung Spinpoint HD160JJ Sata2 NCQ
1X200GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 PATA
1X200GB Maxtor Diamondmax 9 SATA1
Weird configuration but it's what I have to work with unfortunately. Now I have a few options but no idea how it's going to impact on stability and performance.
Option 1 is Raid 0 for the Samsungs and use the rest for storage
Option 2 is Raid 5 Run from the 2 samsungs and back up to the ? Which would be better?
Option 3 Leave it to you DH guru's to put me on the straight and narrow with wise words of enlightenment.
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Jan 30, 2007, 03:36 PM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
Join Date: May 2002
Location: IN Rem-Dormancy
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imo, best bet would be to raid the 2 samsungs in raid 0, and set the other drives as storage (aka, downloads/music/movies)
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Jan 30, 2007, 03:46 PM
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Howlin at the moon
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Sunderland, UK
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Yep im thinking that too but still open to suggestions.
Currently im thinking Raid 0 the two Samsungs, regular backups to the Maxtor9 and photo's, movies etc on the Maxtor10. Don't worry im still dualbooting XP off a seperate 40gb drive.
Now a question, would I get better results putting media etc on the Sata max9 or the Pata max10???
Edit: one last thing does Norton ghost run with Vista??
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Jan 30, 2007, 03:49 PM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
Join Date: May 2002
Location: IN Rem-Dormancy
Posts: 24,070
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Media.. hmm.... while pata has it's limitation that sata doesn't, i'm not sure how the different versions of the drives stack up (although i've had some pretty bad luck with older sata 1 maxtor drives recently)
Have you ran HDTach on either one of them? That should give you a little idea which is overall better (consider the CPU usage and sustained bandwidth on either)
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Jan 30, 2007, 04:00 PM
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Howlin at the moon
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Sunderland, UK
Posts: 1,497
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Heh, dont get me started on Maxtor and it's damned drives, I had 3 fail on me last year. I'm hoping to invest in a couple of western digitals once my wedding and stuff is over with.
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Jan 30, 2007, 04:51 PM
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Noise? What noise?
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Canada
Posts: 6,816
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If you're investing in drives for RAID-0 or RAID-5, the Seagate 7200.10 320GB drives are an insanely good value these days, I can get one for CDN $105. I slapped 3 into an Asus P5B-e, I'm seeing 150MB/sec sustained transfer on a RAID-5 volume and 170 or so into the RAID-0 volume.
The RAID-5 is nice because its ultra reliable. If you're a lazy butt and don't backup all that often (I myself am guilty of that despite just getting a 750GB drive for that purpose) then its great.
Plus it should keep Vista flowing nice and smooth  |
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