Quick Q RE: Hard Drives

[Guest 11 Bills]

right heres the scene, imagine I have a system, and in that system I place 12 drives.

Now say I wanted 6 drives to be video files and the other 6 to be audio files, but show up as 1 of each then mirror them

is it possible to setup the first 3 in RAID 0 (strip) so all 3 show up as one drive and same for the second 3, THEN set each block of 6 in RAID 1 (mirror) so it basically looks like 2 huge drives and at the same time all data is mirrored onto the other disks in RAID 1

hope that makes sense, 3 drives as 1 mirrored to another 3

would I need 2 controllers? this is just not adding up for me.

I dont even know if this makes any sense

[mp*]

Video Audio

h1 | | h7 | |

h2 | | h8 | |

h3 | | h9 | |

__ | | __ | |

| |

| |

h4 | | h10 | |

h5 | | h11 | |

h6 | | h12 | |

__ | | ___ | |

LIke that?

[Flex]

i dont think it is

simply because when u set them up in the bios raid management u dnt get the option to select the collective raid disk.

but im just guessing from memory

[Guest 11 Bills]

v1 | | a1 | |

v2 | | a2 | |

v3 | | a3 | | RAID 0 for vid/aud, use 3 disks as one

__ | | __ | |

| |

| |

v1 | | a1 | |

v2 | | a2 | | RAID 1 mirroring above drives

v3 | | a3 | |

__ | | ___| |

so itll look like 2 disks which are mirrored, kinda thing

may just have to get another controller

[Skola]

Definately trying to prevent a reoccurrence of 'the great hard drive failure of 08' huh?

[Guest 11 Bills]

of course man im f*ckin shook of hard drive failure right now got a 500gb one i aint used in a while n as soon as i put it it says the drive s about to fail, have to back that sh*t up before i lose anything else, wanted to build a NAS system