Raid 1.

[Terminat.]

I have a desktop computer with a 120GB disk drive. I am considering purchasing an additional disk drive to go to Raid 1.

Is it worth it though?

One of my laptops had a serious disk drive problem that made it totally impossible for the bios to detect. That was a laptop though and apart from that my computers have had absolutely no problems with their disk drives?

So is it worth it?

[Cjwinnit]

Is the data stored on the disk worth it?

If it's just a tweaked windows install with a few files you want to keep it's probably not worth it. If you have data you want to keep backed up you may as well just have two normal partitions, one on each drive and duplicate the data you want kept onto both drives, that way the stuff you don't really care about losing is just on one drive and you have more free space. Of course, the benefit of RAID 1 is it does all the duplication automatically...

Edit: Ah, you edited your post as I was typing, hang on.. ;)

[stan03]

well its really up to you.... Raid 1 isn't really for speeds its for security so if your experience with the laptop scares you then you could get another drive. I personally haven't really had any problems with my harddrives.

[Terminat.]

I won't hang on.:)

Did I really alter my post that quickly?

As for the data being important: yes it is. I would hate to have to reinstall windows and all of the other applications (On A 120GB Disk Drive too!). The main thing would be a speed increase.

Is the cost too high though?

[Cjwinnit]

Originally posted by Terminat.
Did I really alter my post that quickly?

Maybe not, it's just I got the brain stem of a horse so changes take a while to filter through to the cortex .. ;)

RAID 1 would be eaiser to have the files duplicated as you wouldn't have to keep copying files, but you wouldn't have as much space as just using two seperate disks with only the stuff you want copied. Hmm...

RAID 1 isn't that expensive really compared to what it used to cost.

[Terminat.]

;)
I am not concerned about not having another 120GB. The computer is not going to need to have 240GB! (Though it could be good.).

By the way with Raid must all of the drives be identical in make or just by size?

[Cjwinnit]

Originally posted by Terminat.
By the way with Raid must all of the drives be identical in make or just by size?

I strongly suggest they are identical, but it's not required.

edit: Link (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=294289) more RAID stuff.

[Terminat.]

Why would you recommend that they were identical?

[Xaotic]

They perform best that way. Otherwise the drive specs of the slower and/or smaller drive will be the bottleneck on the array's performance.