Raid!

[Uknowho]

k this is not really modding but if anyone out there knows anything about raid help me out here

i got an idea for a type of raid but im not sure if it is possible
i have 2 small hard drives and am getting a new larger one and was wondering if it was possible to set up a RAID 1, or as a RAID 0+1. The larger disk would be partitioned into 2 equal sizes to act as 2 smaller disks, and the smaller disk and the partition acts as one side of the RAID 0 so in turn it would be a RAID 0+1 but with 3 disks, when RAID 0+1 conventionally(to my understanding) are made up of 4 disks.

k is this possible?

[monoflap]

So you want to strip two drives and mirror them with one? I think it is possible but I'm not sure about how well that works.

[Airbozo]

You can use software raid as is acts on the partition level and doesn't care if it is on the same drive or striped. Not pretty and it will slow down the overall speed of the disks as the single drive cannot keep up with the two striped drives.

Setup this way may not be supported to boot windows and would be tricky in linux. If the larger drive is bigger than the sum of the two smaller ones (or if you set it up that way, you could make a boot partition on a small section of the large drive and once the sata (I assume you are using sata) raid drivers are loaded you should have access to your raid setup. BACKUP everything if you are worried about loss since ALL of your data will be erased during the raid setup procedure. The only way to know for sure is try...

[Uknowho]

thank you but i realized today while i was doing something that that would highly limit my drive space so im just going to try to RAID the 2 smaller ones together for my os and use the larger one for other things
thank you for the reply