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I wouldn't, simply because you'll lose a large amount of the capacity of ad4 if you use RAID-0.
And while I don't use geom (I have a hardware IDE RAID-5 card I do use), I would imagine the difference in I/O between your IDE drive and SATA drive could either cause problems, or negate any performance increase you might be looking for. That's just me theorizing, I don't actually know. (I'm also assuming geom allows RAID sets to be built from disks on different types of interfaces!) I'm not sure I understand the last question - if one of your drives fails in a RAID-0 you lose your data, yes... but I'm not sure what else you are asking about? |
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Unless something has changed that I don't know about, yes, you would probably want to use disks of the same size. I don't believe you HAVE to, but the useable space on each disk would be that of the smallest disk. So, in your case you could only use 160GB of your SATA drive, giving you a total of 320GB in the RAID set.
That's cool that your motherboard will allow you to mix the interface types to create a RAID set. You can tell how long it's been since I've purchased a new PC motherboard... sigh. Ah, well, like I said, I haven't used software RAID. My box at home does have a hardware RAID, but that's it. I'd be curious what others' opinions are on this, too. |
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Well, then, you see what I mean! I do actually have one PC at home that's pretty new, but I got it pre-built and I'm only doing RAID with SATA drives on that one (RAID-0, in fact!). So I was not aware of the mixing of disk types that could be done. Pretty cool.
(Edited to add - that's a Windows box, which is why I didn't mention it before. I'm doing IDE RAID-5 with a Highpoint card on my FreeBSD box at home.) |
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You don't want to run RAID0, period, unless you have a super-stringent, continuously running, backup setup. If any 1 disk in a RAID0 array dies, you lose all data in the array.
The only time you should use RAID0 is when it's part of a RAID1+RAID0 (aka RAID1+0, or RAID10). But, that requires 4 drives as a minimum. You also don't want to create RAID arrays using different sized or different speed of drives. It's possible to do, but will impact throughput for any data stored on the slower drives/interfaces. |
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Well put, phoenix. Sort of what I was trying to say, but yours was a much clearer and concise post!
The reason I run RAID-0 on that Windows box is because I want speed, speed, speed, and have absolutely no important data on it. The important data is, of course, on the FreeBSD box with RAID-5! |
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