RAID 0

[cyberttc]

You can do RAID 0 (stripping) with 2 or 4 hardrives, is it possible to do with 3 hardrives?

If one of the hard drive fails, is it possible to save the data? How?

 

[ku]

I got a better question. How about 4 drives doing RAID 0 and 1 drive mirroring?

 

[gritnugget]

raid 0 is a bad idea... if one drive gets flaky you lose ALL your data... as for the second post.. if you have 5 drives... might as well go for RAID 5.... 4 drives striped with a 5th for parity

 

[obsol33t]

I'm almost positive that RAID 0 works with 3 drives. If one drive in a RAID setup goes out all data is lost.

I don't understand how one drive could backup data from four other drives ku, but RAID 5 would be cool.

 

[cyberttc]

<< I'm almost positive that RAID 0 works with 3 drives. >>



OK, I got it.

Is it possible to save the data if one of the drive fails?

 

[sad]

<< Is it possible to save the data if one of the drive fails? >>

Nope

Don't bother with raid 0, the risks outweigh what little gains you may see.

 

[Bovinicus]

Why is RAID 0 so risky all of the sudden? Does it make drives more prone to failing? That's like saying having two harddrives with no backup drive is risky...

 

[kly1222]

I completely agree with bovinicus. But the problem with one hard drive dying is magnified in a raid array. When one hard drive dies, you lose everything on all your drives.

Go with raid 0, but make sure you back up your important data. Either ghost your array onto a spare hard drive or onto cdr.