Help Setting up RAID

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  1. CB_DFW

    CB_DFW Regular member

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    I don't have the money to buy a VelociRaptor or a SSD.

    Someone said that I could have a RAID setup that would be faster then having just one HDD.

    Two 500GB drives in a RAID?

    Can someone help me understand this better?
     
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  2. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    Either a velociraptor or SSD would smash RAID in that regard. RAID is for MB/s, velociraptors and SSDs are for response times. Unless you have a large file server, you will not need RAID for speed - its main use is for redundancy, i.e. if a drive goes, you still have the data there.
    For the low budget system builder, a single 32MB cache drive like a Caviar Black is ample.
     
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