Setting up Serial ATA RAID 0 on Your PC

2008-08-12 10:28:29

( Computers )



Setting up a Serial ATA RAID 0 in your own PC should not cost you a lot. Technicians charge per hour and they can charge a lot. If you have a little hardware experience and are willing to experiment you can do it yourself provided that you can follow simple instructions.

SATA stands for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. This simply means that it handles the communications between the computer and storage devices like hard disks, USB flash drives and CDROM, DV-ROM, and other optical drives. A Serial ATA RAID 0 system will work beautifully as they meet each other's capabilities.

Serial ATA Raid 0 or SATA Raid 0 for short lets you protect your data and also allows you to handle massive amounts of information without compromising the speed.

There are a lot of ways in configuring a Serial ATA Raid 0 set up. A simple Raid 0 set up takes at least 2 hard drives in parallel and the two disks function as one disk. The downside is that it's not really a back up system. Raid 0 works faster that just one disk but if one of the disks fails, there is a possibility of losing your data. This is also called Raid Striping.

Another way of setting it up aside from raid 0 is called raid 1. In this set up, at least two disks hold the same exact information. In this set up, if one disk fails, data would still be intact. This is a good way of backing up your data.

When installing your hard disk drives, make sure that the disks you use are of the same capacity as much as possible to avoid any errors or discrepancy. This will make your raid 0 configuration run smoother. Always be careful when selecting cables and make sure that they are the right ones for your drives.


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