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about to set up RAID...few questions....

ghost28

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Copiague, LI NY
System Name REDRUM
Processor AMD Phenom2 x4 940 Black
Motherboard ASUS M4A79 Deluxe
Cooling Cooler Master V8 and NZXT Sentry Fan controller
Memory 8gb OCZ Gold DDR2 1066
Video Card(s) 2-HIS 4870 Radeon 512mb running Crossfire
Storage 4-WD Caviar Blue 640s running Raid 10
Display(s) ASUS 24"
Case Cooler Master HAF 932
Audio Device(s) On Board for now
Power Supply PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 (crossfire Edition)
Software Windows XP Pro 64 Bit
Benchmark Scores None yet....hope to do this within a few weeks after i get my surgery and have to stay home doing no
so i built my rig this past week and i didnt set up raid when installing the OS because i wanted to get the system up and running well first on one HDD....since its running great now i am ready to RAID:rockout:.......

i have four WD6400AAKS drives and i was thinking of RAID 10 so that i have about 1.2TB of storage and little chance of losing all data if there was a drive failure...i was thinking today that maybe if its possible i would just keave the OS on the 640 HDD that its currently on and then set up a RAID5 with the other 3 drives just to store all of my Music, Photos, Videos, ETC on so that they are safe and if the OS drive dies who cares just get a new one and re install windows which is not a huge deal at least my important stuff will be safe....Can this be done? any disadvantages that i am overlooking??? ASUS M4N79 Deluxe MOBO.....

OPINIONS/ASSISTANCE PLEASE?
 
RAID 10 will give you better throughput than RAID 5, but if your top concern is storage capacity, then it doesn't really matter. You might want to make a BartPE boot disc or USB key in case your main drive dies and you need to access the RAID in an emergency.
 
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