Megashrap Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I just bought myself 2 raptor 150 gig HDD's. The mainboard came with a Raid floppy disc, am I correct in saying that I need to use that disc now for the 2 drives for more than one SATA HDD? Thanks in advance for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 you only need that disk when you want to setup a RAID array with those 2 disks.Only choices for that are RAID 0 or 1. Which will result in fast data access with the two drives striped, although if one of the 2 drives fails you will loose all your data. Or a mirrored array which results in just 150gig of storage space although that is backuped on a second disk all the time.If you want to use both drives and use the total amount of 300 gig you don't need the floppy and have no need to setup the RAID array. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megashrap Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 Ah, ok makes sense now. Thanks alot man. I basically want to use 1 for XP home OS and the other asstorage for movies,programs and a partition for a clean install for my OS backed up on it. Also I will probably use the second raptor for Vista whenever I get the cash for it.Man these raptors are awesome HDD's. And I really love the SATA connectors,no more bulky belt cables to get in the way of other stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID informative for me since I knew nothing about them a while ago. Mostly for the quick chart to show the difference between the RAIDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megashrap Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 Yea, I read on that link also about it. Man what a huge difference in the SATA and the old belt cables it makes....HUGE speed difference,no comparison at all in the 2. ;D Now thats what I call true plug n play HDD's. No jumper configs or anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Things SCSI disks have had for ages ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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