Cntrlfrk Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 Is it possible with my LP UT N4F SLI-DR motherboard using the Nvidia RAID that allows SATA II 3Gb/sec. transfer to create a RAID 0 array with the 2 WD HDDs in my Sig and then a few months later (when I can afford it) add 2 more WD HDDs identical to those and at that time rebuild my RAID 0 segment as a mirror onto the 2 new HDDs to create the +1 part of the 0+1. Or do all 4 drives have to be present at the begining and be set up all at the same time as RAID 0+1? I want the performance offered by RAID 0 but I don't want to lose 400+ Gigs of Data if one HDD fails. If this IS possible, is it easy to do? Who thinks this is a good idea? Who votes bad idea? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fight Game Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 who could vote against it? I think it's a wonderful idea, if you have 4 drives, but you would only need a large third drive to do this, not neccessarily 4. Not sure myself if it would have to be done from the start or not. You could always just Raid 0 the four drives, then do an occasional back up on dvd! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cntrlfrk Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 hrmmm, lets see... 500 Gigs of RAID 0 divided by 4.7 gigs per dvd = 107 DVDs (give or take) now multiply 107 DVDs by about .50/each = $53.50 worth of DVDs plus ALOT of work. I think I would rather put the money towards extra storage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoppyMcShotgun Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 hrmmm, lets see... 500 Gigs of RAID 0 divided by 4.7 gigs per dvd = 107 DVDs (give or take) now multiply 107 DVDs by about .50/each = $53.50 worth of DVDs plus ALOT of work. I think I would rather put the money towards extra storage. Not to mention if you got the extra storage, you could just push a button to back it up again, vice paying the $50+ AGAIN so you can burn all those DVD's AGAIN when you want to back up your system AGAIN. My vote is for the extra storage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fight Game Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 lol, I didn't know that you'd be filling up 500 gigs right away...anyways... go ahead and buy 4 drives. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cntrlfrk Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 Hell yeah! You think 5 years of downloaded internet porn will fit in an envelope?? I need some serious Gigage man! Not only that, I need all 500 gigs mirrored on a RAID 1. You've got to have redundancy for important data like that. You think I'm gonna risk titles like "ULTRA KINKY #79 - BOWLIN' IN HER COLON" on a drive crapping out cuz Western Digital's parts supplier shipped out a case of defective drive bearings??? I don't think so. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fight Game Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 lmao Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cntrlfrk Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 bumpity bump bump Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cntrlfrk Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 nobody has an answer to this question? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilamon Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 Why not just move to raid5? The SLI-DR can do that, y'know. It has Four Serial ATA ports supported by the Silicon Image Sil 3114 chip supporting RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5. You'd lose a drive to the array but with 4x250 gig drives, you'd have a single "drive" present to the OS as 750 gigs and if a drive fails, you can run long enough to get a replacement. here's a link to a nice article on the kinds of raid and their definitions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cntrlfrk Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 the main reason for not going with raid 5 is because the sil 3114 chip doesn't support 3g/sec transfers. the NV RAID does but it doesnt support RAID 5 so my choices are - waste my SATA II's 3g/sec capability at 150mb/sec transfer on the silicon image RAID controller but gain RAID 5 OR Get to max out the SATA II's speed on the NV RAID with 3g/sec transfer but only be able to use RAID 0+1 not RAID 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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