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Topic: What is best: two drives or single drive?

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What's up everyone,

I'm building my shuttle (XPC G2 series) and my question is does it really matter today, with fast processors & more RAM, to have software on one drive & my music library on the second?

Depending on your feedback, I'm looking at a raid set up or external backup if I should info on two separate drives.

Thanks for your assistance.

FLeX
 
Posted Sun 07 Jun 09 @ 9:56 am
The reason for partitioning a drive is if your operating system would fail you could reinstall the operating system and would not lose your media/data.
I use a raid style system of two 1.5tb Seagate drives that run indepently. If one would fail I could use the other seeing that it is a mirror of the other.
 
Thanks Steve,

To make sure I understood correctly: partition the first drive between software & media information and set up my raid with the other drive in case of software failure...Then I should be ready & up n running in no time in case of first drive failure?

Thanks again for your assistance.
 
Well it's not exactly how I do it was just a suggestion if you are using one drive as in a laptop.
Partition 1-Operating System
Partition 2-media
I personally don't have any partitions. I run VDJ through a laptop. That is all that is on it; VDJ and the operating system.
Then I have an external with two indepent drives that are a clone of each other. Drive 1 in the external is drive:E and the other drive is drive:H.
Drive E is my primary drive I use with VDJ that has audio, music videos, and karaoke and a few other things for clip banks and slide show.
If drive E would fail I could use drive H because it is an exact clone of drive E.
By the way picked this external with the two 1.5tb installed off Ebay for a little over $300.
Hope all this helps.
 
Got it, I understand. Thanks for your help, Steve.
 
mobiledjsteve wrote :
The reason for partitioning a drive is if your operating system would fail you could reinstall the operating system and would not lose your media/data.
I use a raid style system of two 1.5tb Seagate drives that run indepently. If one would fail I could use the other seeing that it is a mirror of the other.


But wouldn't you still have to reinstall all the programs you had in there before? I have many that I can't even remember where I got them from, they've been there so long, or downloaded freebee type tool programs.
 
You are right, but this unit will be primarily for VDJ, videos, & music. I am going to keep it clean and not too many extra stuff.

Thank you.
 


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