RAID

[thePh@r@oh]

what exactly is RAID and what are the advantages of using it?

[shawshank62]

excellent question, i just got the GA-7N400 Pro, and it has this function. i tried reading the manual but i got really confused.

[ussenterprise]

Redundant Array of Independant (Inexpensive has been used here too...) Disks.
Speed, redundancy, or a combination of both...

[cbuddha42]

depends what mode you use - many people use mode 0 which basically combines 2 discs into 1 but means you have 2 heads writing/reading so it performs faster. most other modes are corp server orianted and are used for redundancy on important data

[Atomic Rooster]

For more RAID info, have a look at this page from WebPedia and the links listed on that page.

[shawshank62]

thx atomic.

is it worth running raid on a personal computer or not really?

[thePh@r@oh]

that article said it wasnt but if it improves speed, maybe it is. would a gamer benefit from this??

[Siliconjunkie]

Most of what I have read is that there is very little if any performance difference at the home level. Now, once you get into SCSI raid where you may have 20-30 drives in Raid 0 it makes a real difference.

[Reknup]

Okay... say your installing a game.... Raid will take the program and strip it into 2 and right half on 1 disk and half on another making it preform twice as fast... Then when u pull a program off your hardrive into memory... it will take the two and fuse them together and put them into memory... Thus again... making it 2 times faster.... The less time the hardrive has to read or write... the faster your programs will execute thus a faster PC (i guess)

[thePh@r@oh]

if what your saying is right then how come you cant do that with just a regualare slave disk.