Raid-0

I've heard a lot of people talking about Raid-0. What exactly is it? I know it has to do with gpus. Can it be done to an Asus G71gx (best buy edition)

 

Nevermind answered my own question

 

RAID is actually a set-up for the HDDs, not the GPUs.

RAID 0 is when you have two of the same HDDs, and information is written and read from and along both HDDs at the same time, which increases performance slightly because the controller had two channels to pull information from(and put info into) as its reading(writing) onto the HDDs.

It splits up your information, and reads the HDDs as a single drive(but as a combined total of HDD space, so you don't lose space) so it can be dangerous, because if one drive fails, pretty much all your information is gone...RAID 0 is good for performance, but bad for security, and good for HDD space.

There is also RAID 1 where you are essentially using the second drive as a back-up, and information is cloned on both. It cuts your HDD space in half, but its good for securing information, because if one drive fails, all your information is still safe on the other one. RAID 1 is good for security, but not great for performance and not great for HDD space.

There is also RAID 1+0 where you do both, with four HDDs, where two drives are used as clone drives to keep all your info safe, and the other two drives are set to RAID 0 and are used for performance.

This set-up is essentially the best of both worlds, but is much more costly, and still cuts you HDD space in half.

 

damnit I spent like 10 minutes writing that up....hahahaha