xboarder Posted July 26, 2002 Posted July 26, 2002 my motherboard came with a RAID controller support...what is that and what does RAID do? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted July 26, 2002 Posted July 26, 2002 There are a couple definations for it.... commonly, Redundent Array of Independent Disk... You have different RAID levels 0-5, whcih define how the disk are set up... IDE raid typically only supports 0 or 1.... RAID-0 Striped - Data is written across multiple disk... this increases speed. RAID-1 Mirrored - Data on disk one is mirrored on disk two.. this helps if a disk fails, b/c you have a copy of your other disk... is slow. That's the easiset way of saying.... Your mobo may also support RAID 0+1.... it stripes the data, and also mirrors it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psywar Posted July 26, 2002 Posted July 26, 2002 raid is very nice... and can speed ur machines HD's up a bit.. I would suggest.. you go online and read about it.. find out about raid config. 0 + 1 n all of that good stuff, and find which one suits you best.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
v8vega350 Posted July 26, 2002 Posted July 26, 2002 is raid even woth spending twice as much for 2 hard drives or is it really that much faster on raid 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted July 26, 2002 Posted July 26, 2002 Depends on what you plan on doing. But yes, RAID 0 is faster. Just make sure your drives are the same size. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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