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Just purchased 2x 500gb seagate hard drives, and was planning on assembling them in RAID 0.
I also have a 320GB drive and a 200GB drive, was wondering if its possible to have the 2 new 500GB drives in a raid 0 setup to improve performance, and somehow use 1 of the other drives as a backup in case one of the 500gb drives bites the dust? or would I need a total of 4 identical drives for that?
I have an ASUS M3A motherboard, it supports RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1
Also, I was thinking of installing Vista Ultimate... Do I need a floppy drive for the raid drivers or can I burn a CD-R with the drivers on it?
Currently running Win XP pro x64 on an AMD 6000 x64 processor with 4gb of ram... Finding drivers was really tough, and I have alot of compatability issues with stuff. is Vista Ultimate any better? or should I look at a different OS?
Thanks in advanced and sorry if the questions are noobish, been a few years since I messed with this stuff and all the hardware has change quite a bit over the years.
a single 200gb drive I bought cost $200 1-2 years ago.. but the 2 new 500gb drives I just got cost me $150 shipped for both.. talk about depreciation...
I also have a 320GB drive and a 200GB drive, was wondering if its possible to have the 2 new 500GB drives in a raid 0 setup to improve performance, and somehow use 1 of the other drives as a backup in case one of the 500gb drives bites the dust? or would I need a total of 4 identical drives for that?
I have an ASUS M3A motherboard, it supports RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1
Also, I was thinking of installing Vista Ultimate... Do I need a floppy drive for the raid drivers or can I burn a CD-R with the drivers on it?
Currently running Win XP pro x64 on an AMD 6000 x64 processor with 4gb of ram... Finding drivers was really tough, and I have alot of compatability issues with stuff. is Vista Ultimate any better? or should I look at a different OS?
Thanks in advanced and sorry if the questions are noobish, been a few years since I messed with this stuff and all the hardware has change quite a bit over the years.
a single 200gb drive I bought cost $200 1-2 years ago.. but the 2 new 500gb drives I just got cost me $150 shipped for both.. talk about depreciation...