Captain Pooka
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I understand that a raid, or atleast the one I'm going to run, runs three hdds as one. However, it combines their RPM and the available space. When I write a program to this drive it writes a third of the program to each, enabling it to read faster and run at about 20,000 RPM. But when one hdd goes out, there is nothing left of this. My intentions are to buy small hdds, but at the price it seems I can get SATA 3.0 160gb at $45 and I can get 80gb for 39.99.. so I'm going to go with the 160s. I might be able to run the RAID in which it writes the whole program to each of the drives, so when one goes out I have two backing it up...
Will this MOBO work for that?
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16813130136
It has SATA Raid.. but it has 1/0/0+1 and I have no diea what that means.
If I was thinking of running a raid, would I need a water cooling system or a hdd fan of some sort? I would imagine having four drives (one with OS and all my documents and stuff I want to keep, and the RAID with games and stuff on there so they run super fast) would fish up alot of heat in the case..
Now, about the "Programs and games". If I put some animating program on the RAID and I had this huge movie that I was making on the fourth additional hdd, would it be the program that makes it run fast? Or would I have to put the animation file on the raid itsself to make it run faster?
Will this MOBO work for that?
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16813130136
It has SATA Raid.. but it has 1/0/0+1 and I have no diea what that means.
If I was thinking of running a raid, would I need a water cooling system or a hdd fan of some sort? I would imagine having four drives (one with OS and all my documents and stuff I want to keep, and the RAID with games and stuff on there so they run super fast) would fish up alot of heat in the case..
Now, about the "Programs and games". If I put some animating program on the RAID and I had this huge movie that I was making on the fourth additional hdd, would it be the program that makes it run fast? Or would I have to put the animation file on the raid itsself to make it run faster?