Why so many hard drives? Raid 1 Explained

Dual Raid 1 setup explained.

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• drives

[howeyman09]

Why not throw them all together into a single RAID 5 array? You would be able to keep fault tolerance and have more space to use. You would probably see a speed increase as well.

[jabcreations]

@howeyman09 It's ALWAYS a poor idea to put one's personal and work files on the same drive as the OS, period.

[jabcreations]

@howeyman09 OS drives are accessed much more frequently so the usage in general leads to shorter lifespans. Add to the fact that a virus infection could leave you unable to transfer files FROM the OS drive leaving you at the mercy of an OS installer that won't forcibly format your drive. Partitions only work for the very poor and shared drive for OS and say video recording will greatly reduce performance especially if someone is not smart enough to disable an OS's pagefile.

[howeyman09]

@jabcreations Splitting a single array into two logical partitions is, in the eyes of software, equivalent to having two physical partitions. You wouldn't have to nuke the whole array if you were reinstalling the operating system, you would just format the partition set aside for the operating system and leave any other partitions for data alone.

[jabcreations]

@howeyman09 That's only acceptable if you're on a very tight budget. If you value information your goal is to REDUCE the risk of it's loss.

[parahumanoid]

@jabcreations

Look into this:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mic­rosoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\­Explorer\User Shell Folders

That should do the trick for you.

[jabcreations]

@parahumanoid What was my question? I posted this video about three ago.

[howeyman09]

@jabcreations As for any increased usage, I would imagine there would be considerably less wear and tear per drive, as the files the operating system would have to access are broken apart and stretched across several disks instead of accessing from just one (which also has the added benefit of being a bit speedier than a single drive). Even if one were to fail, that's that redundancy is for. Plop in another drive, rebuild, and you're good to go.

[parahumanoid]

@jabcreations

It was about relocating My documents and other special folders. Nevermind, I didn't look the video's age.

[parahumanoid]

@seth0941

Not really, they are behind supermicro and IBM on build quality, so they aren't the industry leader. They may be the best seller, but that's different. Anyhow, raid10 can mean both raid 1+0 and raid 0+1 (I have never seen raid 01 without a plus). To me, it's important whether it's 1+0, 0+1 or both supported on a controller, so jabcreations is right: it's not quite professional on their part to ignore this detail.