Is this possible? (raid question)

[Nerd]

Can you setup 4 drives in raid 0/1? I ask this because I plan on getting four 60gxp 60 gig IBM HDD's. I would like to know if it's possible to raid all four? If it isn't, then I plan on getting only two. How much performance gain would I get with a four hdd raid setup?

 

[kw3i]

yes you can as long as you have enough open ide connections. as far as performance that can vary. SR has a database you can check on and kind of see how well diff raid setups work, but not for those particular drives. i think its based on raid controller actually.

 

[LeeBear]

kw3i basicaly answered the question, but setting up 4 drives in a RAID 0/1 cnfiguration on a normal IDE system isn't very useful because of the way IDE works. Most IDE RAID controllers only have 2 IDE channels capable of two device on each channel, but only one device can be access at a time on each channel so having 4 drives would not gain you much improvement(sometimes even worst) over a 2 drive settup since only 1 drive on each channel can be access at once. On a SCSI RAID setup or on a controller card that has more channels, things would be different.

-LeeBear