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<blockquote data-quote="McBie" data-source="post: 1278016" data-attributes="member: 54417"><p>No reason to be worried about the read/write speeds of the disks, they are technically fixed anyway.</p><p>What could be a point of attention with the 2 x 1 TB disks is how you configure them.</p><p></p><p>You can create a so called RAID 0 level whereby you combine the 2 x 1TB disks as a single volume of 2 TB. Risks are that is you loose one disk in the volume, the complete volume will be gone ( and so will your data if you don't have backups )</p><p></p><p>The second option is to create a RAID 1 volume with the 2 x 1TB disks, giving you a capacity of 1 TB. Your data will be mirrored across the 2 disks and if you loose 1 disk, your data is still accessible via the other disk. Mind you, this configuration is not a replacement for a backup -_-</p><p></p><p>Check Wikipedia for an explanation on RAID @ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID</a></p><p></p><p>Hope this helps.</p><p></p><p>Cheers ... McBie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="McBie, post: 1278016, member: 54417"] No reason to be worried about the read/write speeds of the disks, they are technically fixed anyway. What could be a point of attention with the 2 x 1 TB disks is how you configure them. You can create a so called RAID 0 level whereby you combine the 2 x 1TB disks as a single volume of 2 TB. Risks are that is you loose one disk in the volume, the complete volume will be gone ( and so will your data if you don't have backups ) The second option is to create a RAID 1 volume with the 2 x 1TB disks, giving you a capacity of 1 TB. Your data will be mirrored across the 2 disks and if you loose 1 disk, your data is still accessible via the other disk. Mind you, this configuration is not a replacement for a backup -_- Check Wikipedia for an explanation on RAID @ [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID[/url] Hope this helps. Cheers ... McBie [/QUOTE]
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