Endless Paradigm

I recently came into possession of a 1TB Samsung Hard Drive

It's amazing, and having loads of space is awesome, but i know what slows most PCs down is the Hard Drive.

My question is, is it possible to RAID my OS Hard Drive, a 500GB Western Digital drive with my 1TB one, but split into two partitions?

so i have

(500GB hard drive 1) + 500GB partition (hard drive 2)

and the rest of HDD 2 extra?

is it also safe to partition a RAID system?

and what kind of performance gains would i get?

i have never used RAID before ^^"

from what I've read, you can use 2 different hard drives, but it's recommended you use 2 of the same, i guess it's something to do with the read/write speeds so they can both act at the exact same speed (or is this raid 1 I'm thinking of)

raid 0 is safe as long as one HDD doesn't fail, then you will lose all your data

those are the ones i could answer

You can.  If you want to use the other 500GB on the 1TB drive, you'll probably need software RAID or some more complex hardware RAID to do it.

However, HDDs are slow because of latency - RAID does nothing to help latencies (in fact, it may make them worse).

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote: [ -> ]You can.  If you want to use the other 500GB on the 1TB drive, you'll probably need software RAID or some more complex hardware RAID to do it.

However, HDDs are slow because of latency - RAID does nothing to help latencies (in fact, it may make them worse).

yeh the only improvement is it count it as one with the write speeds of both combined which makes it quicker file wise

i want anoth 2 750gb so i can hav 4 in raid and have huge copy speeds