I am currently running 2x320 Seagate sata2 16mb cache drives in raid 0. I am concerned about data loss, Currently running a triple boot as well. I purchased an identical matching drive today and have given thought to a 4th match, but an option is to go raid 5 with the 3 I have
Raid 1 mirroring does not provide me enough storage. Raid 5 (via software not a raid controller card would be the method used), it will work with 3 drives but I wonder how performance overall will be affected on a system used for video encoding and gaming plus general use compared to bucking up and buying a raid controller card or would it be cheaper to buy a 4th drive and go raid 0+1. I would like to continue with a triple boot as I have now XP Pro/XP64/Vista Business
Current hardware is
P5N-E SLI
2x1GB Gskill HZ PC6400 DDR2
2x7600GT SLI
Antec Neo HE 550 watt psu (should be fine with 3 or 4 drives)
floppy
7 in 1 card reader
dvd burner
1 120 mm case fan
E6300 soon to be runnning 24/7 @ 3.2ghz
Feedback as I have not played with raid 0+1 ever nor raid 5. Last I guess I could just add the new drive on as a storage slave unit utilizing Vista Business features backup utility. Not that worried about XP64 as eventully I will remove it and place on a different machine
Raid 1 mirroring does not provide me enough storage. Raid 5 (via software not a raid controller card would be the method used), it will work with 3 drives but I wonder how performance overall will be affected on a system used for video encoding and gaming plus general use compared to bucking up and buying a raid controller card or would it be cheaper to buy a 4th drive and go raid 0+1. I would like to continue with a triple boot as I have now XP Pro/XP64/Vista Business
Current hardware is
P5N-E SLI
2x1GB Gskill HZ PC6400 DDR2
2x7600GT SLI
Antec Neo HE 550 watt psu (should be fine with 3 or 4 drives)
floppy
7 in 1 card reader
dvd burner
1 120 mm case fan
E6300 soon to be runnning 24/7 @ 3.2ghz
Feedback as I have not played with raid 0+1 ever nor raid 5. Last I guess I could just add the new drive on as a storage slave unit utilizing Vista Business features backup utility. Not that worried about XP64 as eventully I will remove it and place on a different machine
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