RAID 0+1 would require FOUR drives, not three.  With three you can do RAID
5, giving the space of two and boosted read performance and redundancy, but
poorer write performance (which means you want your swap file on some other
volume!).

David Gillett


On 16 Jan 2003, at 18:40, Eric Wertman wrote:

> I concur with the other answers you have gotten, put the third as master
> on the second channel..  I would like to point out however that there
> are interesting uses for 3 identical 40G IDE drives... You might look
> into an inexpensive PCI IDE-RAID card and set up a RAID0+1
> configuration.  This gives you nearly double the speed of one drive, the
> space of two, and redundancy should one fail.  Or if you don't care
> about redundancy you can just stripe them.
>
> Just FYI.
>
> Thanks;
>
> Eric
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard Drives, Three?
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I have two 40 Gig hard drives on the primary channel IDE cable. I also
> have an additional 40 Gig not being used. Could I use this one also on
> the secondary cable with my cd-rw? If so, how shall I configure this? HD
> as master and cd-rw as slave or vice-versa? Would I be able to burn
> cd-r's using the secondary HD as download storage? TIA
>
> Gary J.
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