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Replacement hard drive arrived - to Raid or not?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by A[L]C, 23 May 2008.

  1. A[L]C

    A[L]C What's a Dremel?

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    Hi all,

    Ive got a dell (ewww) which has the ICH8R chipset.

    I had it running raid 0 but one of the drives failed. Dell have just swapped the drive out and I have received a WD3200AAKS. From what I can tell these are pretty quick drives.

    So.... shall I raid or not?

    The drives are:

    Western Digital - WD3200AAKS
    Samsung HD321KJ
     
    A[L]C, 23 May 2008
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  2. Mister_Tad

    Mister_Tad Will work for nuts Super Moderator

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    RAID1? sure

    RAID0? pointless

    If your recent drive failure has you wanting a bit of redundancy, RAID1 it is. If not, just run them separately, there isn't any real-world performance difference for 99% of desktop applications anyway. The odd game may load a bit quicker with RAID0 but that's' about it.

    The WD drive is a single platter drive making it pretty quick - put what's most important to you on that one :thumb:
     
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  3. A[L]C

    A[L]C What's a Dremel?

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    ok thanks for the advice :)
     
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