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Without knowing the board intimately, I suspect that it will have RAID level
0 and 1 only. Level 0 is also known as striping without parity. This will
speed up your disk access, and uses both disks. Level 1 is disk mirroring,
uses both disks, and maintains a mirror image of all your data automatically
on the second drive in case of a crash. Level 1 is great for fault
tolerance, but cuts your total usable disk space in half. With Raid 1 you
won't have to back up, unless you need to restore older versions of data.
If the board comes with RAID, I'd be inclined to use one or the other
depending on your circumstances.
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Campbell" <simtrader@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:36 AM
Subject: [Off topic] RAID motherboards
> I'm building a PC for trading purposes and the motherboard (Asus A7V266E)
> comes with RAID. Being rather PC illiterate, can someone explain in
> laymans terms what RAID is, or point me to a good web site. The stuff
I've
> found so far has me more confused than was helpful.
>
> This machine will be a trading PC with two hard drives. One main drive and
> one for backup (using http://www.duocor.com/xc2k/).
>
> For my purposes, should I even care about RAID and if not, can it be
disabled?
>
> S.
>
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