RAID... Who uses it.

[The Freakin' FCC]

I just set up my first RAID 1 array to back up my documents. I keep all my music, documents and necessary drivers on the array and my windows installation on a separate disk. I was wondering how many people do this. I am using the Promise FastTrak 378 that is integrated in the motherboard and so far I like it.

 

[Foxhound]

This belongs in the Tech Talk section.

 

[A_State_of_Trance]

I use two 500gb RAID mirrored because about a year ago I lost a lot of family pictures; some of which were family Christmas pictures of my sister who has since passed away. Loosing those pictures of her was like a dagger through the heart- I was so devastated over losing pictures of her.

I will never not have a RAID system again.

 

[InductedStorm]

I started using a raid 0 setup but after one of my drives not working right and connecting back to the raid setup. (Loss of all data due to half missing) I went to a raid 1 setup using 2 250GB drives. Now I'm not worried about my data because I know there is a duplicate copy that will work.

 

[CrimsonAegis]

I've been using a Raid0 setup with 2 Seagate 250GB 16MB cache hds for the past 2 years with no problems.

 

[=[Ga]= AutoDMC]

RAID 5 with a Promise card, 4 500GB Maxtor drives. 1.5TB total space.

Bought the card because it said "Hardware RAID"... but it's not COMPLETELY Hardware RAID. It's got a hardware XOR unit, but everything else is on the main processor D: So it's not as fast as it could have been...

...but I run all my games off of it, put all my big files on it, and I <3 my RAID array

I've never had to worry about not worrying about running out of harddrive space before

 

[ManBearPig]

lol i thought you were talking about the bug spray

 

[The Freakin' FCC]

I was looking into some of the older Megaraid IDE cards. Anybody had any experience with them?

 

[=[Ga]= AutoDMC]

No, just Pinnacle cards.

And, yes, I use a LOT of RAID out here. Waterbugs the size of cows. Almost need a can of VX to get rid of them D:

 

[The Freakin' FCC]

No, just Pinnacle cards.

I wasn't aware Pinnacle made RAID controllers. They just made garbage TV tuners AFAIK.

 

[Jubei]

2x 500GB in RAID 0 - I back up my files to a NAS box (2x 1TB in RAID 1) and pictures go onto DVD's (14 so far).

 

[=[Ga]= AutoDMC]

I wasn't aware Pinnacle made RAID controllers. They just made garbage TV tuners AFAIK.

Promise, not Pinnacle. Pinnacle makes crappy video capture cards, and Promise makes crappy RAID cards.

I work at a video shop that uses Pinnacle cards, that's my only excuse.

 

[Sgt. Starbuck]

lol i thought you were talking about the bug spray

LOL!! Nut! I'm using RAID 0 on my server. I benched RAID 1 against RAID 0 and the difference was not that fast when compared to keeping stuff safe. I should RAID my Gaming PC but I'm using a Raptor 10K and I can't afford 2.

Tech

 

[RESPAWN]

I've actually been using RAID 1 on my personal computers since 2005 when I lost a good chunk of data on a failing HD. I've got 2 Seagate 250 GB HDs attached to a PCI based Highpoint RAID card. The setup is old enough that my drives are IDE and not SATA, but the advantage is that I can move the entire array (controller card and drives) from one PC to another as needed. My system drive, however, is just a single 250 GB HD.

Oh, and just to make some of you jealous, about 3 months ago I bought a 6.5 TB RAID 5 storage box for the office.

 

[The Freakin' FCC]

LOL!! Nut! I'm using RAID 0 on my server. I benched RAID 1 against RAID 0 and the difference was not that fast when compared to keeping stuff safe. I should RAID my Gaming PC but I'm using a Raptor 10K and I can't afford 2.

Tech

Just so you know, RAID 0 is not really RAID. If one drive fails, you lose data on both drives.

 

[=[Ga]= AutoDMC]

Ever since I'e seen this image, I've always thought of it when it comes to thinking of RAID:

From: [ame]http://www.flickr.com/photos/tirrell/128638167/[/ame]

The water coolers are the drive controllers, and the water bottles are the drives.

RAID-0 gives you extra storage, but no backup ability, like two bottles stacked on top of each other.

RAID-1 mirrors the drives, so if you lose one drive, you have another.

RAID-5 uses three drives, a left drive, a right drive, and a parity drive. As long as you have two of the three drives, your data is safe. 'Tis why I use RAID-5

RAID 0+1 is simpler, it's doubling drives with parity... but unless your drive controller is really stupid, using RAID-5 gives you more space than mirroring.

 

[Havegooda {A|R}]

Just so you know, RAID 0 is not really RAID. If one drive fails, you lose data on both drives.

RAID0 is a RAID level. Different levels of RAID support different things. RAID0 is all about speed...which is perfect if you don't have much, or anything for that matter, that's not replaceable easily. Best to backup to an external drive anyway.

I run a RAID0 config on my HTPC, and I'm going to be running RAID5 on my new computer once I finish building it.

~Gooda~

 

[The Freakin' FCC]

RAID0 is a RAID level. Different levels of RAID support different things. RAID0 is all about speed...which is perfect if you don't have much, or anything for that matter, that's not replaceable easily. Best to backup to an external drive anyway.

I run a RAID0 config on my HTPC, and I'm going to be running RAID5 on my new computer once I finish building it.

~Gooda~

That's kind of what I meant. By definition, RAID has some form or redundancy, RAID 0 has none.

 

[Havegooda {A|R}]

That's kind of what I meant. By definition, RAID has some form or redundancy, RAID 0 has none.

RAID ? which stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, or alternatively Redundant Array of Independent Disks (a less specific name, and thus now the generally accepted one[2]) ? is a technology that employs the simultaneous use of two or more hard disk drives to achieve greater levels of performance, reliability, and/or larger data volume sizes.

Not specifically, but RAID is generally used for redundancy, yes.

~Gooda~

 

[FiRESAUCE]

Not specifically, but RAID is generally used for redundancy, yes.

~Gooda~

Exactly..

Running in raid 0's actually just increases your chance of HD failure since your using 2 drives...