Swimmer Posted April 27, 2004 Author CID Share Posted April 27, 2004 yeah they are on a raid system... I think it is 4 250gb... I will check tomorrow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CycloneAcolyte Posted April 27, 2004 CID Share Posted April 27, 2004 uhh..... what's raid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted April 27, 2004 CID Share Posted April 27, 2004 uhh..... what's raid? Ah I think its that stuff in the can when you have bugs in your house and you spray it and all the bugs die hehe(just joking) Microwave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted April 27, 2004 Author CID Share Posted April 27, 2004 Raid stands for... Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks. It is true that most of the time it is used on servers...but it is becoming more popular for computer geeks and the hardcore speed freaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorne Posted April 27, 2004 CID Share Posted April 27, 2004 2 drives running Raid 0 is alot faster than just one drive. Its all about the computer horsepower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted April 27, 2004 CID Share Posted April 27, 2004 Why is it so much faster? And is there a disadvantage using RAID? newbie questions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorne Posted April 28, 2004 CID Share Posted April 28, 2004 Don't quote me on this cause i haven't looked into it much yet. But i believe in RAID 0 you have 2 disks reading the same Data therefore much faster. Though for some reason it doesn't = twice as fast. The disadvantage is if one disk crashes they both crash and you lose everything. But you can run RAID 0 with a third drive as backup just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted April 28, 2004 CID Share Posted April 28, 2004 Though for some reason it doesn't = twice as fast. I can understand why, the link between the HDs and the rest of the computer can't handle double the data stream yet. SATA seems to be made for RAID 0... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted April 28, 2004 Author CID Share Posted April 28, 2004 Sata is pretty much to repace the old scsi interface... The scsi is pretty much only for servers and was the first interface to offer raid. Then IDE came out with raid and now we have SATA. Raid 0 is the fastest.. It provides a mirror image on 2 drive and they work in tandom to pull info off. Here are the general specs of different types of Raid: Level 0: Provides data striping (spreading out blocks of each file across multiple disks) but no redundancy. This improves performance but does not deliver fault tolerance. Level 3: Same as Level 0, but also reserves one dedicated disk for error correction data. It provides good performance and some level of fault tolerance. Level 5: Provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information. This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. The only reason that you would even want raid would be for a server or you are just wanting something that very few people have in their main computers. It can be very cheap... most of the two Raptors and you have a kick ass raid setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted April 28, 2004 CID Share Posted April 28, 2004 So reading becomes much faster and writing stays the same. Thanks for explaining Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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