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Raid questions

qjanssen
By qjanssen
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Hi guys,

 

These questions might have been answered before, but I couldn't find them. So I'm going to ask them anyway.

 

1. Can I have 2 SSDs in Raid 0 as a boot drive and main programs drive?

2. Can I have 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs in a Raid 10 config with the 2 SSDs as boot drive and main programs and the 2 HDDs as a mirror of the 2 drives while also being able to store mass files (eg. video files and large games)

3. Can question 2 be done in a Hackintosh?

 

Are these things possible? Maybe I'm not understanding Raid correctly? All I know about Raid configs was directly from Linus' Teckquickie vids.

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1. Yes but it will all be the same partition

2. You can but only for equal sizes. So say you have 2x250GB SSD and 2x1TB HDD you can do raid 10 with 250GB per drive resulting in a 500GB raid partition

3. I don't know whether OSX is fine with Raid

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1. Yes, but I wouldn't suggest it.

2. Maybe, but I also wouldn't suggest it as it would lower the performance of the SSDs as they would have to wait for the HDDS to write stuff. (At least thats what I've heard)

 

I'd suggest just running backups of the SSDs to HDDs.

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