Can IDE be in raid??

[rpg711]

can ide hard drives be in raid?
wat about different brands of hard drive but same rpm,size, ect?

 

[Alec§taar]

Ide Raid Is Doable, Since 486 ISA Bus Days That I Know Of (Circa 1992 onwards)

Yes... Doable.

A couple ways:

1.) Software (NT-based OS can do this, & probably others as well)

&/or

2.) Hardware (raid controller specifically) based.



* Check your mobo manual about your IDE slots & RAID controller(s), provided it has something like a Silicon Image controller (who do firmwares on mobos since around 2001 & pretty commonplace on mobos since then can, I've used these too, not just slot ones), etc. - et all in the first place if it's built into the mobo @ all...

OR

There are 3rd party controllers, PCI usually for IDE/EIDE (& lately PCI-E... for SATA/SATA II - running one here, caching type).

Like the subject says though, it's been doable (even caching ones via hardware) all the way thru the ISA, VLB, PCI, PCI-e strata... always possible (did thru all of them, caching too).

If possible? Go hardware, vs. software (diskmgmt.msc, & iirc, it has limits on WHAT kinds of RAID SPANS/STRIPES it can do in RAID levels + uses more CPU cycles too by FAR!)...

APK

P.S.=> I'd want mine done with EQUAL dimension & speed disks... don't know about anyone else! apk

 

[strick94u]

can ide hard drives be in raid?
wat about different brands of hard drive but same rpm,size, ect?

yes my web server has a nice setup I run a fasttrak 2000 on the pci2 slots with 2 80 gig maxtor @ about 100 mbs she is kinda old but reliable dell 500sc 1000t pentium3
and does my ftp site just fine


opps its raid 0
I use anoter pc to backup my photos

 

[rpg711]

ya thx i didnt want to mess up my raid controler now they are working in raid YAY

 

[KennyT772]

if you are running raid 0 on a single channel ide line you will get very little extra performance if not slower. you need to run two drives on two channels with both set as master to get better then single drive results on ide.

 

[rpg711]

ic ic

 

[Deleted member 3]

You don't want to run totally different drives in RAID if you're in it for performance. a 10K disk together with a 7.2K disk will be quite pointless. The 10K disk would be waiting for the slower disk all the time and most likely seektimes will suffer for the disk since it has to wait all the time.

 

[strick94u]

yes matched drive are best I think he was thinking about drives of diffrent size which still wont work as good as matched drives but will work but again will suffer a performance hit. but most IDE drive are 7,200 rpm anyway.......... I did say most