Advice on RAID0 set up

esuhl

OGR wrote: »

Thinking about redundancy in any way as a form of backup is probably a bad idea...

Redundancy might not mean "backup", but a backup is (by definition) a redundant copy of your data...

RobTang

esuhl wrote: »

Redundancy might not mean "backup", but a backup is (by definition) a redundant copy of your data...

Its actually the reverse by dictionary defination, a backup is not a redundent copy but a redundent copy is potentially a backup copy and it is against hardware failure (of the drive) but only that which is why you should not consider RAID a backup strategy, beacause it does not protect from other forms of data loss.

A redundent copy means I can afford to lose it without loss of any data, however losing a backup would be a problem as I would have lost the ability roll back or restore data.
Additionally switching from the original to the backup would incur data loss (from the time i made the backup till now) which doesn't happen in a redundent copy.

Mr_Toad

Dussed wrote: »

Regarding the reliability of adding more drives to the RAID array, that's why I'd like to keep the OS separate. The only things that'd be going on the array would be a hell load of games. (my steam folder on the hdd is 400gb exactly right now)

I've just checked my mobo specs, and it does support onboard raid, but would it be worth getting a dedicated raid controller?

I agree with what the others have said and will add that for playing games it won't make any noticeable difference so why bother.

I'd even go as far as saying that you don't even need SSDs for what your doing. Put the OS on SSD for quicker boot times by all means.

Get yourself a decent 1TB SATA disk for the games.

I use RAID on servers at work but it's used properly in that if a drive fails there is no loss of data and no down time on the server. When this happens the Linux fairies simply pull the faulty drive and plug in a new one. Following the hot swap the disk is automatically re-silvered and full redundancy is restored.