I used to know a bit about RAID in the server world but have been musing over using it in my own PC. I have Windows 7 running on an 80Gb SSD drive, which has about 20Gb free space. This drive is intended to be mainly OS and apps, with sizeable data (e.g. iTunes lib, outlook data files) held on D drive. My D drive is a 60Gb SSD drive which currently has about 37Gb free.
I'm more interested in improved performance rather than redundancy and data loss recovery but the more the merrier.
As I understand it I can use any RAID standard with mixed drives, but the size of my new C drive would be limited by the smallest drive.
My m/b supports RAID using VIA drivers but is a bit short of memory @ 2Gb (max capacity) but I don't want to spend any more money.
I've read up about it elsewhere and RAID 1 looks the place to go to give maximum capacity and speed but does anyone have practical experience or suggestions for RAIDing a home PC? And would it be worth the effort?
(Note: D drive is a 64Gb Crucial but only shows 60Gb free in Properties)
Last edited by: smokie on Sat 31 Jul 10 at 09:16
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