RAID 1 with 3rd drive for testing?

#1 codeblue

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Posted 09 January 2006 - 02:19 AM

Is it possible to set up a RAID 1 with 2 identacal drives and still keep my 4g drive for testing my Nlite & WPI?

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Posted 09 January 2006 - 05:22 AM

why not? just raid the 2 drives and thats it.

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Posted 09 January 2006 - 05:35 AM

But can i have a 3rd drive for testing?
e.g.

2 250g drives on 1 IDE cable in a RAID 1 mirror config
1 4g drive for testing purposes on a another IDE cable

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Posted 09 January 2006 - 05:38 AM

That is not a good setup of your drives. Both mirroed drives on 1 IDE cable will be slow. IDE can only write to one drive at a time so each write will take twice as long.
If you really want to test your build, use VMware workstation, this will allow you to test everything except driver integration. When you need to test driver integration use drive imaging software to create an image of your drive and if it doesnt work just drop the image back onto it.

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Posted 09 January 2006 - 07:03 AM

I use VM as well, but sometimes the real world has different effects to VM - user accounts, drivers. NOT having a 3rd drive for testing is not an option.

SO can i have:

2 250 gig drives in RAID 1 mirrored on two IDE cables, and a 3rd drive slaved on one of the cables?

PS if both my IDE cables are taken up by the RAID, which one would connect to my CD drive?

This post has been edited by codeblue: 09 January 2006 - 11:40 AM

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