- May 23, 2010
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Hello, I recently purchased two Seagate Barracuda 3 TB drives that are the same model and I would like to try a RAID with them, which I've never done before. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5. What I would like to know is:
1) If I set these two drives as a RAID to have one faster logical drive, is it going to be as dependable as having each one separately? I mean, is there more risk of file corruption in a RAID than each drive separately?
2) Will the total capacity of these two drives in a RAID be twice the formatted capacity of each of them, or less?
3) There are different RAID options. I know one is mirrored in case one drive fails but that option doesn't offer any speed advantage, and I already have an external drive for backup. In the manual it says there's RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD. Which one of these is the best for speed and less chance of file corruption?
Thanks,
Sebastian
1) If I set these two drives as a RAID to have one faster logical drive, is it going to be as dependable as having each one separately? I mean, is there more risk of file corruption in a RAID than each drive separately?
2) Will the total capacity of these two drives in a RAID be twice the formatted capacity of each of them, or less?
3) There are different RAID options. I know one is mirrored in case one drive fails but that option doesn't offer any speed advantage, and I already have an external drive for backup. In the manual it says there's RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD. Which one of these is the best for speed and less chance of file corruption?
Thanks,
Sebastian