raid help

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by screwballl

I agree, I can see doing this with RAID1 which has a copy of each partition and data on both drives... but doing this with RAID0 is pointless (and maybe not possible, I haven't dealt with it enough to know for sure), you may as well just keep the 2 drives non-RAID and split up the partitions as stated... running RAID0, if one drive fails, you not only have to worry about a single drive but also 3-6 partitions worth of data gone, whereas if you left them non-RAID (or RAID 0), if one drive fails, you will still have access to the data and partitions on the good drive(s).

You can partition RAID 0 as well, but depending on the situation yes that would be pointless. For example if you have 4 250 GB drives, and you want 2 500 GB partitions, and you only have 1 RAID controller, you could run all 4 in RAID 0 then partition it to 2 500GB Partitions. Again, I would not advise this, but I have seen some crazy RAID setups.