question about raid

[chicago00]

i am soon going to build a new system the will have a mb with a raid option , i have two 60 gig maxtor drives right now , if i did raid 0 and made a 120 gig drive , what would happen if i decided to upgrade the mb in 6 months or a year , would i lose my data? also if i didn't use raid , could i put the two 60 gig drives on each raid channel as regular ide? question number to , if my win 2000 is ntfs file system and i save a word doc on a disk from it , can it be read on a windows 98 computer? what exactly is ntfs and what does it entail ?

thanks a ton

 

[SocrPlyr]

<< if i did raid 0 and made a 120 gig drive , what would happen if i decided to upgrade the mb in 6 months or a year , would i lose my data? >>


No... you would just have to stick the new harddrive in and do some sort of copy function to get all your data accross... note: you cannot remove the raid setup you have to copy first


<< also if i didn't use raid , could i put the two 60 gig drives on each raid channel as regular ide? >>


yes... you don't even have to use the raid controller... you could use the regular IDE controller as well... i would use this option... it is easier and less chance of a data loss... actually i would do a raid 1 setup... but then you only have 60GB of harddrive...


<< if my win 2000 is ntfs file system and i save a word doc on a disk from it , can it be read on a windows 98 computer? >>


over a network yes... but if you stick that drive in the computer or you dual boot no... (although there might be programs that you can use to do this... but if that was the case i would stick w/ fat32)


<< what exactly is ntfs and what does it entail ? >>


it is a more secure way of storing data... i think (keyword) it is less prone to corruption etc... but i have also heard that it has a minor decrease in performance vs. fat32... also it cannot be read easily by win98... it only writes to the harddrive in ntfs... so just in case you were wondering any floppies, zips, etc that you place in the computer are fine...

hope that helped...
Josh

 

[chicago00]

thanks , you helped aton