Raid

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by newgroove, Dec 2, 2004.

  1. newgroove

    newgroove <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/089815186

    Ok, So I have a 200 GB hard drive and a 160 GB hard drive I want to hook together for my video editing. I know it's possible - is it a raid card that I need? Any info??? Cost? Where? Etc.? Thanks guys.
     
    newgroove, Dec 2, 2004
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  2. Flybywyre

    Flybywyre Private E-2

    Hello Newgroove................

    What make is your MB and are you using SATA ?

    Regards
    FBW
     
    Flybywyre, Dec 2, 2004
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  3. krazykrl

    krazykrl Sergeant Major

    What do you want? RAID 0 or RAID 1?

    RAID 0 is Stripe, that will make your two drives act as one large drive, probably about 320-330GB total.

    RAID 1 is Mirror, redundancy, this will make both drives appear as on 160GB drive. If one drive fails, data is on the other, nothing lost.

    Hardware RAID require a card. Software RAIDS can be done but must use the correct software. Windows XP only supports RAID 0, not 1.

    There is software that will allow you to do a form of RAID 1 from XP, I have used it, worked well.

    http://www.techsoftpl.com/backup/index.htm
     
    krazykrl, Dec 2, 2004
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  4. newgroove

    newgroove <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/089815186

    I want to connect the two drives together. How would I do that and how much would it be?
     
    newgroove, Dec 2, 2004
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  5. krazykrl

    krazykrl Sergeant Major

    I think you have to be more specific. I tried to explain what I thought you wanted. Explain in more detail what you want to accomplish.
     
    krazykrl, Dec 2, 2004
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  6. newgroove

    newgroove <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/089815186

    That is what I want.
     
    newgroove, Dec 2, 2004
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  7. newgroove

    newgroove <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/089815186

    So, any help???
     
    newgroove, Dec 4, 2004
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  8. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    DavidGP, Dec 4, 2004
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  9. Wyatt_Earp

    Wyatt_Earp MajorGeek

    Personally, I wouldn't recommend a RAID setup for your situation. It seems it would be more of a hassle than it's worth. Unless you have some video files that are larger than 200 Gb, which is doubtful, the RAID setup won't help much. You may get a bit of a performance increase, but I don't think it would be worth it for video editing. Not to mention, you will lose about 60-70 Gb of total storage space.
     
    Wyatt_Earp, Dec 4, 2004
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  10. newgroove

    newgroove <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/089815186

    I'm sorry but I'm not sure what that means....

    Well, we do some major video editing and so I was looking to have a lot more space to store and have better and faster performance while editing, etc.
     
    newgroove, Dec 4, 2004
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  11. Wyatt_Earp

    Wyatt_Earp MajorGeek

    "Well, we do some major video editing and so I was looking to have a lot more space to store and have better and faster performance while editing, etc."

    You'll get a little bit of performance increase, but you will lose about 60-70Gb as I said earlier. Reason being, when you set up a RAID array you double the space of the smaller HDD size. So, RAIDing a 200Gb and 160Gb drive will be the same as if you RAIDed two 160Gb drives.
     
    Wyatt_Earp, Dec 4, 2004
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  12. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    What you first need to find out is does your motherboard have an onboard raid controller ( generally the onboard ones only allow Raid0 and 1 or 0+1 )

    what motherboard do you have?
    once you know that look on the manufacturers page for the full specs and that will tell you if onboard raid is an option.

    as the what harddrives you have finding what mobo you have will help in narrowing that one down also.


    as Wyatt said if you dont have matched drives
    1. you will loose some space if the sizes are not the same.
    2. If speeds are not the same also you will loose some of the speed advantage of Raid.

    as raid will use the size and speeds of the smaller/slower drive... so to maximize the use of Raid, a matched set of HDs are advisable.
     
    DavidGP, Dec 5, 2004
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  13. newgroove

    newgroove <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/089815186

    newgroove, Dec 9, 2004
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