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simontoyou
03-23-05, 05:37 PM
I have a DFI Lanparty Ultra-D and I have a seagate 250gb sata drive and a wd2500jb ide drive in my comp.
My question is, do I set my wd to master with no slave?
Rumrunner
03-23-05, 05:46 PM
Sure, you can set it to master if you want. You don't have to have a slave.
simontoyou
03-23-05, 05:59 PM
Cool, thanks.

Would setting up raid 0 be a good idea with those 2 hard drives?
Rumrunner
03-23-05, 07:09 PM
You could configure those two in Raid 0. I would suggest partitioning all of that space into smaller, more manageble arrays, as you may run into trouble if your raid bios and bios are not able to deal with an array that large. Also, with an array that large, you would want to partition to keep your NTFS tables manageble... I would assume.

Many people are not for RAIDing IDE with SATA, but I really don't see a problem with it myself. Raid 0 with those two drives should be significantly faster than either one by itself.

Now do know that Raid 0 is not meant for the storage of valuble and irreplacable data.
firebat45
03-25-05, 07:08 PM
exactly, by striping you double your chances of losing all your data. If either harddrive fails for any reason, all the data on both harddrives in unusable. This is why i haven't set up a RAID Array. By mirroring, you increase reliability, but you lose space. RAID is even slow for access times compared to Single drives. I don't really understand why most people think RAID is such a performance booster, it has been shown to only improve benchmark scores, and real life performance is near the same.
Also, by RAIDing two drives of different manufacturers, you will be limited by the performance of the lesser drive. IMO just seperate harddrives is the best solution for the normal user, and RAID is only really useful for servers, etc. Sorry for the rant, but i had to say something.
burningrave101
03-25-05, 09:39 PM
Cool, thanks.

Would setting up raid 0 be a good idea with those 2 hard drives?

RAID0 is a waste of time for the average home user. Its not going to make your games load any faster. Its not going to make windows feel any faster. Seek times are actually going to be lower now since it has to access both drives so performance for the average user is actually going to go down now.

Unless you enjoy sitting around moving back and forth very large files from one HDD to the next then RAID0 isn't going to benefit you any. What it is going to do though is double your chances of losing all of your data.