RAID jumper question

[jimmclrk1 10+ year member]

For my RAID set-up, do I put the second hard drive as Slave, or should I leave it as cable select? I think the primary is set as master... but it could be cable select.

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[jimmclrk1 10+ year member]

Frosty, I know you know what I'm talking about.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

The only RAID I'm familiar with is the kind that comes in spray cans and kills bees //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

I know of it, but that doesn't mean I can troubleshoot it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[brad 10+ year member]

What type of RAID drives?

SCSI

SATA

EIDE

EDIT: Is it only 2 drives?

 

[RandyJ 10+ year member]

Frosty, I know you know what I'm talking about.

Frosty, while electronics geek by day; horn dog by night, is actually computer hardware/software illiterate IIRC.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

For IDE raid setups Both HDDs have to be master on their own channels.

For SATA RAID you have no choice but to make them a master on their own channel because SATA doesn't support 2 devices per channel.

What raid card you running?(onboard or seperate) What type of RAID do you want to build?(Stripe, mirror, mirror+stripe) Etc and are both drives identical? and not just in size.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Frosty, while electronics geek by day; horn dog by night, is actually computer hardware/software illiterate IIRC.

The stuff changes too **** fast. The last time I was seriously into doing hardware work on my computers, clock speeds were well under 1GHz (hell, Pentium might have still been toying around with the MMX idea) and RAM hadn't gone into the ten million varities of it there are now (you had SIMMs and DIMMs of how much you needed, and that was the only decision you made //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif).

Oh well.

 

[jimmclrk1 10+ year member]

OK, apparently i don't have all the info i need. Let me do a little more research and figure this out!

 

[brad 10+ year member]

personally, I wouldn't recommend doing RAID on a regular personal computers with only two drives unless you are mirroring with RAID 1 because the speed increase just doesn't justify the likelyhood of data loss when striping with a RAID 0 array.More than two drives are required to see a real benifit to running, that is why it is usually only used in servers.

RAID 0 - data striping (increased speed, less fault tolerance)

RAID 1 - data mirroring(keeps a mirror image of each drive increasing fault tolerance)

There are better RAID configurations, but require the use of three or more drives.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

personally, I wouldn't recommend doing RAID on a regular personal computers with only two drives unless you are mirroring with RAID 1 because the speed increase just doesn't justify the likelyhood of data loss when striping with a RAID 0 array.More than two drives are required to see a real benifit to running, that is why it is usually only used in servers.
RAID 0 - data striping (increased speed, less fault tolerance)

RAID 1 - data mirroring(keeps a mirror image of each drive increasing fault tolerance)

There are better RAID configurations, but require the use of three or more drives.

Agree 100% Redundancy is much better than any slight speed increase. In fact the only application I find RAID0 a necessity in is Video editing stations and even then I would do a 0+1 or 3.

I run a RAID 5 on my home server.

This is a great site explaining all the commonly used RAID levels

http://www.acnc.com/04_01_03.html