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Computer savvy people RAID or IDE? Thanks
15 years ago
I was running a RAID 0 system and have been unable to fix it, I'm thinking of going back to IDE with 5 separate hard drives. I haven't a clue about either TBH
HELP!
EDIT:I've finally managed to wipe the disks. Get rid of the faulty disk and have just set up a RAID 5. I'm just installing Windows again. Hopefully this is an end to my woes and I'll be up and running again!
HELP!
EDIT:I've finally managed to wipe the disks. Get rid of the faulty disk and have just set up a RAID 5. I'm just installing Windows again. Hopefully this is an end to my woes and I'll be up and running again!
Telain
~telain
IDE is barely supported and starting to get more expensive, and SATA drives are already cheap. Unless you have to, I wouldn't bother with IDE. A RAID is a completely different concept, but I wouldn't run 5 drives in a raid 0, any one fails and you've lost all that data. Unless the data is truly that unimportant, I'd use RAID 5 or RAID 0+1. 5 would give you more room, with fault tolerance for losing 1 disk. 0+1 would only give half the total size of the disks, and use an even number of disks.
ruscfox
~ruscfox
Well, honestly, I use a RAID 0 with 2 drives and a 3rd for Backup purposes. The RAID 0 is definitely faster, but at a higher risk if one of the drives fail, all the data is gone.
Taigitsune
~taigitsune
If you have 5 drives and the data is already lost, I highly recommend going RAID-5
