grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Does it mean I'm sexy? Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 hahaha, no hope of that Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Originally Posted By: Ezorisu My intent was to set it up as RAID1, but I got busy with other stuff (and also lazy), so I've been just saving to the external drives. You probably still can without having to trash the disks. You might have to read the manual though... Link to post Share on other sites
dale#1 1 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 About this RAID thing, it seems we get a choice of none, RAID0 or RAID1 now with online customisation thingies. Which would you (the ones in the know) choose? Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Good question! Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I'll try to make this as non geeky as poss... Raid 0 (striping) is for speed as all the disks get treated as one. If you have two disks in a Raid 0 set then you can read/write twice as fast because you have twice the amount of heads to use. It is actually a more dangerous setup as you are now exposed to losing all your data if any of the drives fail. But it is fast! Raid 1 (mirroring) is for protection. You must have an even amount of discs as each disc has a mirror pair. Data is written to both discs in a mirrored pair. If one drive fails in a Raid 1 set then its mirror pair carries on as if nothing had happened. You need to run monitoring software to tell you when a drive has failed. There are lots of other raid levels too, but these usually appear on server systems with lots of disks. So if I had a home machine with data on it that I really wanted to protect I'd choose Raid 1 and do some kind of regular off site backup. Link to post Share on other sites
Middleman C Charbroiled 2 0 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Interesting that, I had no idea. I have never heard of it. What config do most new computers come in? Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Most "off the shelf" computers will come with a simple, single HDD. To incorporate RAID, you would have to add a controller card and a couple of additional HDD's. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 go on, get yourself a server and LAN your apartment Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 We did! It's a Video/Torrent server tho... Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Well over my head that! Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Since reading this thread it has kicked me into action. I went out and bought a 500GB hard disc and am now backing up once a week. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 happyhappy Link to post Share on other sites
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