Set up for Hard Drives

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  1. Gooey_GUI

    Gooey_GUI Wanted: Red Shirts

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    I want to install the Maxtor as the boot drive and the Raptors in RAID 0 for large video files. Do I need to have two total arrays? Can I have a single drive on the first port of the first pair of ports then the array on second pair of ports?

    (1) Maxtor MaXLine III - 7B300S0 - 300 GB SATA
    (2) WD - Raptors - 74 GB

    TIA
     
    Gooey_GUI, 7 Dec 2004
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  2. webbyman

    webbyman Hax.

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    your operating system would proberly boot alot faster if you just used about an 8gb partision of one of the raptor hdd, but i dont know if you give a monkey, and might be a little confusing :hehe:
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    Gooey_GUI Wanted: Red Shirts

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    The MaxLine is an NCQ drive that I will use with an SLI board when they arrive. It will boot the OS much faster than the Raptor. It's also going to be used with a database which will also be faster with random files.
     
    Gooey_GUI, 7 Dec 2004
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  4. v0id

    v0id What's a Dremel?

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    Even with a MaxLine with NCQ, I doubt you will be booting MUCH faster than if you used the raptors to boot. I actually think the raptors would take the cake here.
     
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  5. Gooey_GUI

    Gooey_GUI Wanted: Red Shirts

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    The original question is not being answered. I'm not asking which should have the OS. I'm asking about the setup as proposed. I don't want RAID 0 for booting with.
     
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  6. kilobyte

    kilobyte What's a Dremel?

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    if you are doing a raid 0 with 1 300gig and a 74 gig drive you are losing over 200 gig of space there just to know u know (or am i reading this post wrong)
     
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  7. Gooey_GUI

    Gooey_GUI Wanted: Red Shirts

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    It's 2 Raptors with RAID 0 and that's secondary to running a single Maxtor as the boot drive.

    Hopefully that's clear by now. If I must run 4 drives then the answer would be that I must use 2 Maxtors in RAID 1, then run 2 Raptors in RAID 0. I'm trying to ask if I can use three drives not four.

    :wallbash:
     
    Gooey_GUI, 8 Dec 2004
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  8. JuMpErFLY

    JuMpErFLY Minimodder

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    yes you can
     
    JuMpErFLY, 8 Dec 2004
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  9. Zephyr

    Zephyr Go V-Boy, Go!

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    yes, its completely possible. just seems that for people, its more fun to debate hard drives than to answer questions :duh:

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    anyway, no you shouldnt have any problem at all setting up 2 hdd's in a Raid 0 and one standalone.
     
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  10. Jackal

    Jackal What's a Dremel?

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    as has been said, it will work fine
     
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