I thought I had heard of this somewhere, but now I can't find any info.

Two drives partitioned in two.

Partitions from each drive make a RAID 0, the other partitions from each drive make a RAID 1.

So say you had two 100gb drives, you could have a 100gb RAID 0, and a 50gb RAID 1.

9/13/2007 11:37:43 AM

http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/matrixstorage_sb.htm

Quote :

"For those users who wish to combine the benefits of two RAID levels, matrix RAID is the solution. When using two hard drives, matrix RAID allows RAID 0 and RAID 1 functions to be combined,"

[Edited on September 13, 2007 at 11:48 AM. Reason : /]

9/13/2007 11:45:27 AM

Thanks for the answer. It turns out that my mobo doesn't support that option.


So. I have a large, constantly shifting media collection on my drive. I just got a new, identical drive. I don't play games with this PC anymore, but speed is still appreciated. Should I:

A) Keep my system files on one drive and my media files on another
B) RAID 0 the drives, and have everything

It really boils down to: is formatting and reinstalling all my stuff worth the performance gain of a RAID array if I'm only using it for Office and CS3?

9/14/2007 5:26:17 PM

A.

And the performance increases of raid 0 are debatable. And totally not worth it if you're storing any important data since it increases your chances of data loss.

9/14/2007 5:36:58 PM