Thanks to the combination of my unlimited connection and Bitorrent, I find my 160GB Hard Disk Filled to the brim with eh... ah... cough..Linux Distros.
So i thought, why not get another HDD?? So i am going to buy another 160GB HDD. But I have a few questions first:
1) I wanted to set up a RAID 0 Array. What I've heard is that in a RAID 0 Array, the space you can utilize is double the space of the smallest HDD in the array. This happens to be the reason I decided to go for another 160GB and not a larger one. Is what I've heard right?
2) I actually read up a bit about RADI0 arrays and found out that data is broken into chunks which are then written on the same sector on both disks, thus allowing sort of a parallel connection. But here's the issue. A lot of my data (160 GB to be precise) is already present on one disk. So how do I go about re-distributing this data so that it is broken into chunks and stored on 2 disks? Or is this automatic?
3) Will I have to re-install Windows in order to make it utilize the added speed the RAID 0 array offers? Or can I de-fragment or something?
Questions about RAID 0
unless you're into HD video editing and you can't spend extra money on those scsi disks i can't see a single good reason to use a raid0,cuz its kinda risky and the performence gains you'd see are pretty marginal
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