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RAID 0 WHIT MULTIBOOT W98/WIN2000 PRO

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by mainfo

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what is procedure to put windows98 and windows 2000 on multiboot whit raid 0 for video editing whit windows 2000.I have 2 hdd 60g quantum as,board abit vp6 whit 2xp3-1g
raid on board.I read on internet is possible to put not same drive and same size whit raid.Is true yes or not.Because if you put 2 drive same name and size you have chance if one fail other one fail to.Because is make same batch.Thank you marc-andre

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by tony.colgrove

You can mix and match models and sizes, but hardware raid will conform to your smallest drive, so if you did RAID 0 with a 15G and a 20G you would have only 30G usable on your stripe set (RAID 0, which is not fault tolerant) ie 15g+15g , the other 5 on the 20 is wasted.
If you want fault tolerence you would use RAID 1 (mirroring), which your 2- 60G drives would give you 60G usable space, but if one drive fails, the other takes over. No worries from the software. The RAID controller thinks it is all one drive, doesn't know anything about the mirroring.

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