What kind of Hard drives do I need to have Raid 0?

[hackdugood]

I want my new PC to have RAID 0, but I get confused when it comes to SATA, ATA and Ultra ATA. Which one do I need to have RAID 0? The motherboard has RAID features, but I don't know which HDrive. SATA 3.0/Gbs?

 

[OrionCheung]

buy TWO the SAME harddrive. (mostly match the RPM, Harddrive Space aka GB, and buffer.) match sure is the same cable. IDE and IDE, SATA and SATA.

 

[lalilulelosamsung]

SATA and ATA both support RAID, not sure about Ultra ATA but I assume so. As far as I am aware you can have any combination of these, but ideally you want identical harddrives as the RAID can only work as fast as the slowest hard drive. Sata 3.0/Gbs (Sata 300) is just the newer revision of SATA, with more bandwith than Sata 150.

 

[Spookhunter]

SATA/ATA/UTRA ATA are the types of connectors that connect the hard drive.SATA is the fastest of them and has a very thin cable rather than a ribbon cable. Most motherboards will have this as standard these days.Not sure why you need RAID as this will require 2 Hard drives at least. RAID is a system where your BIOS makes a copy of everything you save to your computer - basically its a backup system.

 

[Jeremie I]

This totally depends on the motherboard and the RAID controller. You need to read up on the board and see where the RAID connection are. If it is new, I could about guess that it will be sata (but that is only a guess).What type of motherboard is it? What type of array are you looking for?Raid 0 provides improved performance and additional storage but no fault tolerance from disk errors or disk failure. If one disk goes bad, you loose everything.RAID1 is mirrored drives and provide great fault tolerance.

 

[S Z]

I use WD raptors for my raid0 setups. A raptor is faster than any sata 3.0 out there and two in a raid0 fly. put two 75GB raptors in as a Raid0 and add a big hard drive to use as a storage drive and make sure you put any data you dont wanna lose on the storage drive. Bear in mind that setting up a raid is more detailed than a single drive. If you have an intel southbridge---ex ICH7R(R for raid) thats where you want to put it and thats the raid drivers you want for your F6 drivers(Vista just says "install drivers")

 

[iSarah]

Knowing the specs for RAID, is the first thing you should learn.