Im just wondering or speculating how exactly RAID works, I know that there are 2 additional IDE ports for RAID and the rest of the 2 normally on the Motherboard by default, Do the other controllers on the motherboard work as Normal? , for example could you put 4 CD rom drives i.e Optical drives , whether DVD or CD RW . and then connect 4 drives in RAID 0 stripping by connecting them on the RAID connectors??

Check out the article we wrote explaining RAID. If you have any other questions after that, please do not hesitate to ask.

http://www.slcentral.com/articles/01/1/raid

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Hi again,

ive gone through the article on Raid in the site , and its just as good as the one i read at anandtech.com , but i want to read more about how it is in a practical situation i.e a practical examples or configurations of RAID

look at this link . It tell you every Level of raid available , more than you can ask .

They talk about all these raid level;

RAID Level:
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
10
53
0+1

http://www.acnc.com/04_01_01.html

Thanks for the reply , but as i ask again , can you please tell me about the physical connections , I know alot about RAID levels .But i just want to hear about what has been done practically , N o t what is 'usually implemented ' or can be implementd. Do you have a Raid configuration?

Maybe I can help...

I run 2 arrays(0+1 maybe?)

I have 2 of the following (4 drives total)

2 x 60gb ATA133 Maxtor 7200RPM drives which are striped. So basically this makes 1 120gb drive with twice the performance of a single drive.

The other set of 2 is being used to mirror this one. This way if my stripe fails, I have a mirror from which I can restore.

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