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Hot Topics Hanging on L4Y Closing Down anyone here Crackdown 3's geomod Roll-Call. Who's still... R.I.P Sir Lots-A-Pot Server maps? Red Faction for Mac Who's still here? Run Event December 27th!   Online Goodness There are 0 users and 2 guests online     Levels-4-You : Lounge : SATA Drives [Forum Rules]   Back to Forum Thread List mad_ferrit   Posted 8th Sep 2005 12:37pm L4Y Member Post 842 / 1510 Hi, didn't know where this kind of query belongs.. it appears we have lost the Computer Related Problems thread after the site change... Just a note on SATA drives. Now I believe that one fo the advantages with these is that you can run 2 HDD's in tandem, one being a mirror of the other. Then when you're PC is trying to access the information it can pull 50% form each drive simultaneously, ultimately increasing the speed of your HDD. Am I right in that? Anyways, if I am then is it actually worth doing? If I'm wrong then can someone delete the thread? MY RF MAPS     Garner    Posted 8th Sep 2005 3:16pm Post 1527 / 4125 This can be done with any drive type, not just SATA. Its called RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) There are various 'types' of RAID, designated by a number. I'll describe the main 3 found on motherboards these days... RAID 0 is two disks that together act as one. As two drives are doing the work both read and write times can be twice as fast as normal. RAID 0 isn't true RAID because if one disk fails... the other is useless. All data on both disks is lost. Disk capacity is total of all disks in array. RAID 1 is (typically) two disks, with one acting as a mirror of the other. The optional part of RAID 1 is to have a third disk that doesn't do anything unless one of the primary pair fails... at which point whichever of the primary pair is still active becomes the primary disk and the third disk becomes the mirror. This means that writing to the disk is the same speed as having a single disk because the same data is writen to both disks at the same time. Both disks however can be used to read data, meaning reading is up to double the speed of a single disk. Also if one of the disks fails... the other will still have all your data and will happily run. This is what RAID is really about... data protection. Speed is just a bonus... Disk capacity is half the total of all disks in the array. RAID 0+1 Is a mixture of the above 2 RAID types. You need a motherboard that can support quad RAID for this as you need 4 disks. Its made up of 2 RAID 0's, themselves arranged in RAID 1. In certain cases (ie disk 1 of RAID 0 - 1 and disk 2 of RAID 0 - 2) this can sustain multiple disk failures.... if disk 1 of both RAID 0's fail however you're screwed. Disk capacity is half the total of all disks in the array. --- With RAID ALL disks in the array MUST WITHOUT EXCEPTION be identical. So its not just having 2 disks available... its 2 identical disks available. If you can afford it... I recommend it. Not because of data security as RAID is truely designed for.. but for speed. There is a noticeable difference when the main bottleneck in any computer system suddenly can operate twice as fast. "Science is this extraordinary transnational, transcultural, trans-everything language which is the only way to discover Truth and its regrettable that billions are still stuck in the Middle Ages believing the crap propagated by Popes and priests..." - Peter Atkins    Modified Sep 8th, 03:19pm by Garner mad_ferrit   Posted 9th Sep 2005 9:18am L4Y Member Post 845 / 1510 Thanks for all the info... I'll look into it maybe MY RF MAPS

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