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Another Hard drive Question

Lionheart said:
Ok, this is one of those dumb questions... ( I know about FSX and FS9, but not that much about computers...)

What does Raid-0 mean? I know only that RAID is a dual 'mirror' drive (if thats correct). Not much more then that.



Bill
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A RAID-0 config is when you use two hard drives as a virtual single drive. The data you want to store is boken into data blocks, where half is stored on one drive and half is stored on the other, simultaneously. It is retrieved simultaneously, also.

Think of the data as a four letter word such as, well, "four". It is broken into two data blocks, ie "fo" and "ur". "fo" is written (or retrieved) on one drive, and at the same instant "ur" is written (or retrieved) on the other. It's like splitting a job between two people at once, and it gets done faster.

A RAID-1 config is when all of the data is written on both drives. Each drive has all the data, so in essence you are just making a backup copy when you save something.

My two 150 gig raptor HD's in a RAID-0 give me a single 279 gig virtual HD. Don't ask me where the other 21 gigs disappeared to.
 
Bone said:
A RAID-0 config is when you use two hard drives as a virtual single drive. The data you want to store is boken into data blocks, where half is stored on one drive and half is stored on the other, simultaneously. It is retrieved simultaneously, also.

Think of the data as a four letter word such as, well, "four". It is broken into two data blocks, ie "fo" and "ur". "fo" is written (or retrieved) on one drive, and at the same instant "ur" is written (or retrieved) on the other. It's like splitting a job between two people at once, and it gets done faster.

A RAID-1 config is when all of the data is written on both drives. Each drive has all the data, so in essence you are just making a backup copy when you save something.

My two 150 gig raptor HD's in a RAID-0 give me a single 279 gig virtual HD. Don't ask me where the other 21 gigs disappeared to.
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Thanks for the mini tutorial on that Bone.

:ernae:


By the way, from what I found out, because of totals in Binary being slightly different, the amount of actual 'useable' data area on a HD is less then what is advertised. My 1TB drives only had like 970,000 gigs on them (or less, cant remember).


Bill
 
Lionheart said:
Thanks for the mini tutorial on that Bone.

:ernae:


By the way, from what I found out, because of totals in Binary being slightly different, the amount of actual 'useable' data area on a HD is less then what is advertised. My 1TB drives only had like 970,000 gigs on them (or less, cant remember).


Bill
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Thanks. Everything gets rounded up these days, except wages.
 
For what it's worth...when I was building my last rig I went with SSD drives. One for the OS, an identical SSD for photoscenery, FSX installed on it's own dedicated 1TB drive with another 1TB drive and 2x500GB for storage.
 
kilo delta said:
For what it's worth...when I was building my last rig I went with SSD drives. One for the OS, an identical SSD for photoscenery, FSX installed on it's own dedicated 1TB drive with another 1TB drive and 2x500GB for storage.
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Just can't hide money...LOL :woot:
 
I wish, Harleyman :costumes:

At the time, SSD was brand new technology and ,as I already had the 10k Raptor drives, I REALLY wanted the new hdd's. In retrospect, paying ~€700 for a single 64GB hard drive does sound a little ....extreme...but I managed to get a good deal on purchasing 3 of them :faint:

In fairness........they've performed brilliantly. Boot up to Desktop takes around 20secs (Vista Ultimate 64bit with all the bloatware still enabled) and using the second SSD for Photoscenery results in fantastic texture load rates.
The best hdd for FSX at the moment for price and performance is the WD 300GB Velociraptor. :)
 
Maybe so about the V-Raptor...I have one..


But I do like the SSD ones too......:applause:
 
Awesoe, Kilo Delta!


I am hearing SSD is the way to go. You dont even have to defrag them. No moving parts.... Amazing technology.




Bill
 
Lionheart said:
Awesoe, Kilo Delta!


I am hearing SSD is the way to go. You dont even have to defrag them. No moving parts.... Amazing technology.




Bill
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Yep...ssd is the future. No moving parts,reliable,silent, they run cool and extremely fast (i'm running the 2.5" Samsung 64gb ssd with ~100mb/sec read/write). Only downside is that it'd be impossible to retrieve data should the drive fail.
 
My system i built last year is based around 2x V-Raptors and one Raptor drives! Its load times are brillient and have no problems with loading games or programs!

Also you dont need Norton Ghost to copy a HDD to another HDD, you should be able to backup that HDD and then install the new one and then restore the old HDD to that new one!
 
Chris Sykes said:
My system i built last year is based around 2x V-Raptors and one Raptor drives! Its load times are brillient and have no problems with loading games or programs!

Also you dont need Norton Ghost to copy a HDD to another HDD, you should be able to backup that HDD and then install the new one and then restore the old HDD to that new one!
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Is a Raptor a brand name or a concept for a HD, like Raid?




Bill
 
The Raptor is an old 10,000 RPM Hard drive offered by Western Digital. The Velociraptor is its successor, offering faster timings and more capacity.
 
Thanks guys...


Wasnt sure.


I have learned so much about computers from this website.. Trying to take in as much as possible...




Bill
 
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