Gonna Do The RAID THING

[Raine]

Ok i got this KT7A running my AXIA 1000 (blue) at 10.5 x 133 (1400)
And oh my god is this thing fast....now I'm thinking about the raid i have a matching set of 10 gig drives and a 75 gig deskstar....I was thinking the raid on the two 10s on the ide3 with raid 0 just striping..and the 75 on ide4............. will i need to format the two 10s to set up the raid.....and if i read it right in raid 0 i will get all 20gigs out of these drives? I guess i want input from those of you who have walked this path already..Thanks in advance for the help

 

[Tachyon]

Raine (Apr 04, 2001 07:10 a.m.):
Ok i got this KT7A running my AXIA 1000 (blue) at 10.5 x 133 (1400)
And oh my god is this thing fast....now I'm thinking about the raid i have a matching set of 10 gig drives and a 75 gig deskstar....I was thinking the raid on the two 10s on the ide3 with raid 0 just striping..and the 75 on ide4............. will i need to format the two 10s to set up the raid.....and if i read it right in raid 0 i will get all 20gigs out of these drives? I guess i want input from those of you who have walked this path already..Thanks in advance for the help

I assume that you have the KT7A RAID. You are correct. When you enter the HighPoint BIOS it will force a format as part of the RAID 0 setup. You will get a single ~20GB drive on IDE 3.

Terry

 

[Raine]

But after the format will i be able to reinstall my drive from a ghost 2001 image of the drive before formating...or will the (new) 20 gig config confuse ghost? also which format would you recomend ...stripping.... mirroring or stripping and mirroring

 

[Metaxas]

I love RAID, I have 2 drives running mode 0, I wonder what have 4 drives running mode 0 would be like? Man, that would be a butt load of storage space...

 

[Tachyon]

Raine (Apr 04, 2001 07:31 p.m.):
But after the format will i be able to reinstall my drive from a ghost 2001 image of the drive before formating...or will the (new) 20 gig config confuse ghost? also which format would you recomend ...stripping.... mirroring or stripping and mirroring

If you have only 2 drives your choices are either RAID 0 OR RAID 1 but not both. If you mean install the OS from your current single drive I wouldn't recommend doing that.

Terry

 

[Raine]

Alright buddy and thanks to all you guys for the help i'll let you know how it turns out.........