Salutations,
While everyone is free to configure their computer as they see fit, using
RAID 0 for your boot drive and/or data storage is a _bad_ idea. Very bad.
If either drive fails for any reason you will lose all of the data on
_both_ drives. When you combine drives in a RAID 0 you are effectively
doubling your chance for failure. Not to mention, you usually slow down one
of the drives. For example, say you have an older slower hard drive. You
add a fast new hard drive and combine the two to keep the same drive letter.
The faster hard drive will read/write at the same speed as the slower one.
RAID 0 gives very fast writes and read but is only really useful for one
purpose, as a very fast scratch disk for such things as video editing or
image editing.
Cheers,
David
on 7/15/02 12:03 PM, Ed Kummel at tech_ed_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Whoa!
> I read through this thread (sorry, this came over the
> weekend and I rarely get time to log into my computer
> over the weekend...honey-doo list is getting smaller
> and smaller though) and this is the only message you
> should pay attention to.
> Don't mean anything to any of the others on this list,
> but La Green's advice is correct. The built-in disk
> management can perform all services you need on your
> installed mass-storage devices (and you have some
> really powerful options!) You can even set up any
> number of drives to be displayed as a single drive! I
> have this on one of the Dells I have at work! I have a
> 10Gb drive in addition to the one that came with the
> machine, but only have one drive letter. Really good
> when you need to expand your drive space!
>
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
> http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
> http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
> subdomain)
>
> --- LA GREEN <lagoff1_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> RIGHT CLICK ON MY COMPUTER, GO TO MANAGE, WHEN THE
>> COMPUTER MANAGEMENT
>> WINDOW POPS UP GO TO DISK MANAGEMENT. YOU SHOULD
>> SEE ALL YOUR DRIVES. MORE
>> THAN LIKELY THE ONE YOU CANT SEE IS UNFORMATED.
>> FORMAT THAT DRIVE AND YOU
>> SHOULD BE GOOD TO GO AFTER THAT.
>>
>> LAG
>>
>>
>>> From: "Jeff Bakker" <stretch_at_hurontel.on.ca>
>>> Reply-To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>>> To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
>>> Subject: [NTLK] Off Topic Question
>>> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 06:47:22 -0700
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Everybody. I have a question for all you
>> smarter than me people out
>>> threre!
>>> I am running as a second computer a Compaq Proliant
>> 800 with dual 200mhz
>>> pentium pro chips and 128meg of ram, dual 4.3 gig
>> scsi drives, and Windows
>>> 2000 pro. The problem that I am having is that
>> under the BIOS when the
>>> computer is booting both drives show up as 0 and 1
>> which is correct. When
>>> the computer boots into Windoze and I go to My
>> Computer only 1 drive shows
>>> up. When I got to Control Panel and go to system
>> and the to hardware
>>> devices both drives show up under the Hard drives
>> tab. Any ideas as how to
>>> get the second drive picked up by windoze? Any
>> help would be great.
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Jeff Bakker
>>>
>>>
>>>
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