Lilmodder Posted January 1, 2003 Posted January 1, 2003 I know nothing about raid, so here's how I see it: On a gigabyte GA-8IHXP: IDE-1:Cd-RW IDE-2:Cd-ROM Raid-0:Western Digital 80GB Raid-1:Western Digital 40GB Is This Right??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiKiGoD Posted January 1, 2003 Posted January 1, 2003 nope... you need two of the same drives to raid something.... and from your post it looks like you only have one of each drive... but in case you do have two, i'd stripe (RAID 0) the 40 GB and i dunno why you would mirror anything unless you got a server or something but mirror the 80's. Reasong being, that the 40's are gonna have a little faster access time, so they will have better performance. CDROMs are fine Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilmodder Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 Is raid gonna make that big of a difference? If I'm not gonna go raid, how's this? IDE1-Westerndigital 80 CD-ROM IDE2-Westerndigital 40 CD-RW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeghead009 Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 BIG NONO do not put your CDroms and Hard Drives in the same channel, IDE1 - RW(master) and CD-ROM(slave) IDE2 - 40(master) and 80 (Slave) use your 40gig for your OS and system stuff and your 80 for all games and pictures/mp3 etc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilmodder Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeock Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 if you raid your drives you will lose the space of the bigger drive. You would end up having as ,cuh room as your smallest drive. In this case the 40gig, but times 2, so you would end up with 80 gig. If your motherboard supports plain ide devices on the raid channel do that and give them all their own channel for faster access times. If you have the 2 cd roms on the same ide channel you could have problems doing direct cd copies and that type of thing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepGC96ZJ Posted March 3, 2003 Posted March 3, 2003 Yeah .. Do not put your CD Roms on the same IDE. Do what you said before. IDE 1+40GB HD+CD Rom IDE 2+80GB HD+CD-RW this is you best. You will get skips in your burned CDs some times. I use to get a lot of coasters with it set up like that! Good luck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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