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raid?? am still confused.. is it worth the extra 30 bucks? (CDN)... (hahaha! look at the knifed-guy!

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raid?? am still confused.. is it worth the extra 30 bucks? (CDN)... (hahaha! look at the knifed-guy!

raid? someone wanna explain this is plain english? no geek speak (altho i'd understand, i have a headache.. ohh migraines suck)
 
RAID runs multiple drives as a single drive. You get better performance under the right conditions. Remember, the cost isn't just the board, but the extra drives as well.
 
I think its worth it, get 2 SAME TYPE HDD's, and slap 'em in on mode 1 - stripe the hell out of them, and watch your read / write scores and real world performance go up. Raid 5 is my dream, 5 75GXP ATA100 drives... ;D 150Gig should be quite plenty for me for quite some time.
 
I'm going to buy the new MSI K7 Turbo R mobo which has RAID. I'm not planning to use Raid and to buy a second hard drive. Can I use those RAID connectors also as normal IDE connectors? If so I want to connect my CD writer to one of those.
 
App (Feb 04, 2001 08:44 a.m.):
I'm going to buy the new MSI K7 Turbo R mobo which has RAID. I'm not planning to use Raid and to buy a second hard drive. Can I use those RAID connectors also as normal IDE connectors? If so I want to connect my CD writer to one of those.
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You don't need to use them to set up a RAID config. so you can do that with no problem.
 
....or is it mode 0 for striping? Oh well, I got mine...can't wait to see what what those 75GXP's can do striped and on a ATA100 setup... ;D
 
No, you don't need raid... Unless your running two identical hard drives why would you? Don't let anyone tell you different. They are just bragging because they did... :D
 
Fool (Feb 04, 2001 11:19 p.m.):
No, you don't need raid... Unless your running two identical hard drives why would you? Don't let anyone tell you different. They are just bragging because they did... :D
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I bet it would run faster then yours.
 
App (Feb 04, 2001 08:44 a.m.):
I'm going to buy the new MSI K7 Turbo R mobo which has RAID. I'm not planning to use Raid and to buy a second hard drive. Can I use those RAID connectors also as normal IDE connectors? If so I want to connect my CD writer to one of those.
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I am not sure you can use the ATA100 connectors for your CDRW, I guess not. However if anyone has experience with this, correct me if I am wrong plz.
 
You can connect it to a ATA100. It'll just default to whatever the CDRW is running at. I wouldn't want to connect one to an actual ATA100 plug-in card, but it would still work.
 
I can tell you that you can run a two drive RAID on the Highpoint controller and a third drive in a standard configuration. I have done this with two ATA100s and one Ultra66. The ATA100s operated at ATA100 and the Ultra 66 operated at Ultra66. I don’t see why a CDR drive would be any different. I also don’t see why it would be necessary. Think about it. A KT7-R has four IDE channels on the board plus four more on the RAID controller.

Also, in my situation RAID 0 is faster. RAID 0-1 with four drives is also faster than a single drive in my system.

Colin
 
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