On Sep 15, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
It made lots of difference speed wise? Could be important since I am
working with audio software.
Remind me - is that the raid configuration where it effectively
makes for
one very fast "virtual drive" or the one where the second acts as a
"mirror"
for redundancy ? -
Yes, a striped RAID (RAID 0) is what you're calling a virtual drive.
A file stored on a RAID0 set typically would have alternating sectors
stored on each physical drive. Makes it about twice as fast as a
single drive for large reads & writes.
The other issue is my primary drive is 250 gig whuile the second
one is 500
gig. How would this affect things? Would it still be worth
striping for
speed ? Can I assign 250 gig of the second one for striping and
just use
the remaining 250 gig on the second one as a separate volume?
I would get a 2nd 250 gig drive, identical in make & model to the
first, and use those 2 for the RAID. Then use your 500 gig as an
external firewire backup drive. You can get an external firewire
enclosure from Other World Computing and stick that 500GB into that,
and presto, you have a 500GB firewire (FW800) drive for about 80
bucks. As far as using 1/2 of your 500G for the 2nd half of a RAID0
set, I don't know. Maybe if it's partitioned into two 250GB.
On 15/9/06 12:26, "Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Little late to this thread, but... that 2nd hard drive you got, you
are going to use it in a Striped RAID config, right? I did mine and
it made about as much difference as the 4 gigs of RAM. (Get a 3rd
firewire drive for your backup, auto-wake at 2am and have SuperDuper
do your backups.)
On Sep 11, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
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