Just wondering if you can run raid 0 across 4 HDD's. I know you can make 2 HDD's into 1 virtual HDD through raid but can you make 4HDD's into one virtual Hdd? My reason for this is simply speed. I have 4 74gb Sata 2 Raptors and I figure why not? If I can get extra speed and have 250GB's of 1200mb's (theoretical) raid performance that would be awesome.
can you stripe 4 drives? yep will you get 1200mb/sec? nope will it be any faster than a single drive? maybe RAID0 can give you a speed boost, but it depends completely on how you're using the disks. What will you be storing on these drives?
you'll have very high failure rate.I hear ppl loosing data on raid 0 every year or so,4 drives in raid 0 would be worse.
You'll only lose data if one drive fails. It increases the chances of losing data as any one of four disks can fail but if its only for a gaming machine or something and not long-term file storage, then who cares? I would do it just cos you have the disks so why not? Just don't store anything important on it.
You can run 4 drives in RAID 0... but the more drives you add to a RAID 0 array, the greater the potential for disk failure - obviously, so it's not recommended... unless you have a very good backup routine in place! You might want to consider running a RAID 0 + 1, or RAID 5 array instead
