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Raid Configurations
Name: Trey Date: September 4, 2003 at 13:16:16 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: 3.06 P4 512Mb
Comment:
I was wondering about Raid configurations... first of all... I have two 80 GB Maxtor ATA 133 8 MB Cache harddrives running off of the primary IDE channle... I also have an ATA 133 controller/RAID card that I don't have installed yet.... now all of this hardware I didn't origally buy to put into raid configuration... I just happen to have the right stuff to do it now.... so my questions are.... A)How do I go about setting up a system like that and B) Will any configuration actually give me any kind of performance gain? and C) is it worth giving up the extra harddrive space that i sort of need for doing my video editing? D) If so... what steps do I need to take to make RAID work?
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