Whats RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5?
RAID 0 (called “striping”) combines all the drives in the array as one giant drive, and it doesn’t require an even number of drives to work. Actually, RAID 0 isn’t really RAID, it’s AID, bacause in this configuration, there is no redundancy or data protection. Storage capacity is determined by the smallest drive in the array. That capacity is then applied to format all other drives in the array. For example, if you’re using three disks of different sizes, say, 40GB, 60GB, and 75GB drives in a RAID 0 array, your system will see one huge drive of 120GB (40GB x 3) instead of the total of the three (175GB). So, to use RAID 0 in its most efficient way, use same-sized disks. The good news here is that RAID 0 offers 95% better performance under sustained data transfers when one drive per EIDE port is used. So, if that ATA-100 disk you have tops out at 20MB/sec., in a RAID 0 configuration, you’ll be pumping an awesome 38 MB/sec. sustained throughput. Wow! Spanning: If you want to utilize all t
