[windows2000] Re: OT: SATA Hard Drives
- From: "Charles R. Buchanan" <daphatbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:52:57 -0800
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:01:41 +0100, "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> took
time to say the following:
SS> I run software raids in win2k/xp/win2k3 with same size-different brands
SS> harddrives. No problem there. If I'm building a software raid from scratch,
SS> I usually buy same size-same brand drives for practical purposes.
I am assuming that the RAID is built in the MB so would that be
considered as hardware?
SS> For Raid-0 it's true. But you don't have any security there. If one of the
SS> drives die, you loose the data on both. In practice and non-critical systems
SS> it's fine though, as it's really fast. I use this myself. With raid-0, the
SS> more drives you add, the faster it gets basically.
It's my own personal computer and I got the vast majority of my
*important* stuff backed up.
SS> Raid-0 *is* good, if you can backup stuff properly. If the data is important
SS> and you can't afford to loose, better look at raid 0+1 or similar.
SS>
SS> HTH.
The bigest thing is re-installing everything. :-( Oh, I almost forgot,
Will I still be able to dual (sometimes triple) boot?
Thanks!
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