setting up 2 extra Sata HDD??

I currently have 2 Hitachi 160GB HDD in a Raid(0) setup and would like to setup 2 more HDD. How should I set the other HDD up??? Raid 0 or Raid 1??? Thanks

 

First, clearly you will need a RAID card that supports four drives, and also room fo them!

RAID0 stripe you would use to add the capacity of the extra drives to your current setup (i.e. one massive partition, one drive letter)
RAID1 stripe will mirror the existing data for backup, so you will only benefit should a disk drive go down. Generally this is not used for home purposes, so you'll probably want 0.

Example: 4 160GB S-ATA HDDs

RAID0: C:/ total drive space: 640GB
RAID1: C:/ total drive space: 160GB D:/ total drive space: 160GB
or alternatively C:/ 160GB only for even better protection.

Generally, however, the 0 stripe option is favoured for speed and storage capacity, as cheap networks in excess of 500GB and 150MB/sec can be achieved.

 

Thanks for the info Sam!!!! My motherboard supports 4 sata 150 and 4 sataII 300 drives.......I have plenty of room......Thanks

 

No problem. I'm probably going to get two 320GB WDCs when i can afford them!

 

Nice rig Sam!! I hear ya there.....i'm trying to run SLI video cards but I can't afford to buy the first card!!LOL

 

Indeed, SLi seems ludicrously expensive even for what it is at present.