Anyone running RAID on P4P800 Deluxe.

  > > I have 4 EIDE drives all Western Digital:
  > >
  > > 160gb
  > > 120gb
  > > 40gb x2
  > >
  > > They are on the VIA RAID controller NOT using RAID.
  > > I have 2 CDRW'S on the standard IDE controllers.
  > >
  > >
  > > I am currently doing a lot of Digital Audio stuff converting vinyl to
  > > CD, dumping 16 track tape to disk and so forth.
  > >
  > > Would there be any advantage to me running the drives as a RAID set and
  > > if so which one should I choose and how should I set the drives up?
  > >
  > > Will they have to be reformatted if I go that way?
  > >
  > > Suggestions are welcome!
 >
 > What you could do is make a RAID 0 out of those two 40 GB drives and have
 > that as your Windows drive.

I wouldn't recommend that route. You might improve boot time, but little
else. In fact, it can be quite a nightmare to re-image a cloned system
partition/drive in the event of a broken stripe depending on the back-up
software and the OS. Besides, 40GB is plenty big for OS and software.

If I had your IDE's this is what I would do:

1X 40GB system/boot
1X 40GB back-up of above (not RAID1, but scheduled back-ups using Acronis)

160GB & 120GB in RAID0.....this would sacrifice 40GB from your big drive,
but if throughput is your priority then this is a small sacrifice.

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 >
 > If I had your IDE's this is what I would do:
 >
 > 1X 40GB system/boot
 > 1X 40GB back-up of above (not RAID1, but scheduled back-ups using Acronis)
 >
 > 160GB & 120GB in RAID0.....this would sacrifice 40GB from your big drive,
 > but if throughput is your priority then this is a small sacrifice.

And yes, you would lose everything is the set-up for RAID0. If you are
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