Hi all,
I'm totally new to this Sata thing. I know that setting two Seagate 160gb Sata as a Raid 0 will have a huge increase over my old IDE's. My concern is the stability and use of space.
1) I want to setup a Raid 0 with 2x 160gb sata hd's, is it safe to keep other files on there besides just application programs? 320gb of applications is not really an option.
2) If "No" to #1 then, can I partition the two 160gb into 40gb on each HD and use them in a Raid 0 for XP, leaving me with 240gb of backup space. This would be wicked cool!
I would hate to setup a Raid 0 and not utilize the space for movies and files. I understand that I can setup a Raid 1 for stability but how different is the performance from Raid 0?
Pre-Thanks for the help!
I'm totally new to this Sata thing. I know that setting two Seagate 160gb Sata as a Raid 0 will have a huge increase over my old IDE's. My concern is the stability and use of space.
1) I want to setup a Raid 0 with 2x 160gb sata hd's, is it safe to keep other files on there besides just application programs? 320gb of applications is not really an option.
2) If "No" to #1 then, can I partition the two 160gb into 40gb on each HD and use them in a Raid 0 for XP, leaving me with 240gb of backup space. This would be wicked cool!
I would hate to setup a Raid 0 and not utilize the space for movies and files. I understand that I can setup a Raid 1 for stability but how different is the performance from Raid 0?
Pre-Thanks for the help!