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What is Raid 0 and Should I use it?

malcolm2608

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I have two hard drives and I dont really use one , I was looking around on youtube and saw this thing about a raid array . Would it be useful for system performance or is it even worth it.
here are the names (copied and pasted from speccy because im really lazy :( )
Hard Drives
WDC WD3200AVJS-00WDA0 ATA Device
SAMSUNG SP2004C ATA Device
 
If you put those drives in RAID0, you would lose 120 GB of storage capacity of the WDC drive. I'm not sure about performance on those two drives but I think they are too different in order to consider using RAID.
 
no, you want to RAID with identical drives only.
 
You can RAID them gain a bit of performance in large file read and write, take a small hit in small files, and still use the remnant of the larger size drive, but with a different drive letter or by mounting it as a empty folder and remapping.


You double your chances of data loss from drive failures in RAID 0. For the 20% or so performance increase buy one larger drive as areal density makes for faster drives.
 
no, you want to RAID with identical drives only.

Hmm You always seem to have just the right answer. IM ON TO YOU!!! and thanks
 
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