raid help

[Pat82]

i am building a new system for gamming - i am going to run vista ultimate 64bit -- allready purchased vista -- >
my harddrive setup thoughts:

--> WD 80gig sata ( running vista only)(updates)(virues scan)
--> WD 640gig sata
--> WD 640gig SATA
i would like to put the 640s in raid -- but i would like to partition the one down to 3 partitions of 200gigs - would the other drive do the same???
so i would have::::
C:/ vista (80gig) 1 physical drive
D: 200gigs (partition from the 640 drive)
E:same
F:same
g:40gig

then another 640 - setup the same way

[Hitman]

Which RAID are you thinking about using?

[Pat82]

i am not totally sure - raid1 or raid0 -- i want the second to backup the one..

[Reloadron]

You need to Google and read about RAID. If you want redundancy you want RAID 1. That will offer backup for a small trade off of speed.

Ron

[Jokerswild]

[Hitman]

LMFAO, I hadn't seen that one yet.

I am thinking what you want is RAID 1, but that's not a back up that's redundancy. Only protects you against drive failure.

This is kinda out dated, but it should give you a basic Idea of RAID

RAID Guide

[Myopic]

Originally Posted by Jokerswild

...That. Gave me a good laugh. LOL

[screwballl]

Originally Posted by Pat82

i would like to put the 640s in raid -- but i would like to partition the one down to 3 partitions of 200gigs - would the other drive do the same???
so i would have::::
C:/ vista (80gig) 1 physical drive
D: 200gigs (partition from the 640 drive)
E:same
F:same
g:40gig

then another 640 - setup the same way

I have not seen a RAID system that will do that (although I may be wrong)... almost every RAID setup I have ever seen uses both of the entire hard drive space.

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by screwballl

I have not seen a RAID system that will do that (although I may be wrong)... almost every RAID setup I have ever seen uses both of the entire hard drive space.

You can partition a RAID 1 array and this would accomplish what he was wanting to do. I would advise against it, but it is possible.

[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).