Raid Question

[mcs328]

I need some education on this RAID control capable motherboards. I'm looking at the Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra and it's capable of up to 8 ide connections...2 of which are raid. Which means there are the regular IDE 1 and IDE 2 mobo connections. And the other are raid. Do I have to setup the my harddrives in a raid format (2 exact HD hooked up) or can I just use it as a regular IDE connection without the raid benefits.

[sumyundud]

You don't have to set your system in RAID...You can disable the
RAID in the BIOS set up or maybe by jumper settings.
Use RAID if you do a lot of Video and audio rendering; Otherwise dont spend money on RAID set up.

[Heihachi]

ohhhhhhh.. didn't know that Soyo came out w/ their version of KT333 yet.. looks like my next comp project.

[THC]

Originally posted by sumyundud
Use RAID if you do a lot of Video and audio rendering; Otherwise dont spend money on RAID set up.

I don't know why everyone is saying that RAID is only good for audio and video rendering. I don't do any of that to a large extent, yet getting RAID was the best thing I've ever done. It makes everything faster, from opening large programs, saving stuff, copying files etc etc.
I don't think you will find anything that overall enhances a system as much as RAID does for that little money

[DoPeY5007]

Originally posted by THC


I don't think you will find anything that overall enhances a system as much as RAID does for that little money :stupid:



My main system will never be with out

[mcs328]

Yay...they have a review of the mobo on the news page. So when you have two exact hard drives(40gig each) hooked up as a RAID, is one HD just a copy of the other so you essentially have one 40gig HD with a backup? Or is it one big 80gig HD and it's faster b/c you got two HD retrieving the files at the same time?

[DoPeY5007]

Originally posted by mcs328
Yay...they have a review of the mobo on the news page. So when you have two exact hard drives(40gig each) hooked up as a RAID, is one HD just a copy of the other so you essentially have one 40gig HD with a backup? Or is it one big 80gig HD and it's faster b/c you got two HD retrieving the files at the same time? RAID 0 / it would be 80gig = Faster
RAID 1 / 40gig = better for important stuff, backup

[Bires]

Hardware or software RAID?

[THC]

Originally posted by Bires
Hardware or software RAID?

Hardware! :-)

You will not get the same performance if you run software RAID. One reason is that you will need some of your system resources to "handle" the RAID, where in a RAID hardware system the hardware does that (...).