Use volume mode on raid set up or not??

[Fred Jodry]

Make a really small (~40 GB or smaller) partition on each and test for yourself. Then you can zero out past the partitions and use your own best result.

[Matt Stoltz]

Fred

thanks for your response but Im really not sure what you mean –can you explain a little more -especially zero out past the partitions –

you kinda lost me there

matt

[Fred Jodry]

Instead of having to swap to a spare set of work hard drives every time you want to test “volumes setups”, a new tweak in your software, or whatever, have 2 per cent of each drive, after the main partition, set up as a test partition to test something. When you are done, wipe out the test such as deleting folders, or reach for a software utility to delete and zero out the test partition (on each work drive) and then make new ones (test partitions).

[Fred Jodry]

Whoa, Matt. It looks like you should ask the manufacturer or seller of the drives what this volumes stuff is. Sometimes the manufacturers give us too few instructions. Other times I think they`re writing exciting and different chapters about as fast as Rudyard Kipling would.