Author Topic: Any one using Raid 0? (Read 341 times)

vatiAH · « **on:** September 13, 2005, 01:04:42 AM »

Is anyone useing a Raid 0 array? if you are is there enough of a performance boost to justify nukeing my XP install and reinstalling with raid?

Vati

buzkill · « **Reply #1 on:** September 13, 2005, 07:38:21 AM »

i am......now they are only 7200 rpm drives, so they don't boost it like raptors would, but if you have a clean install for now don't change it. there just isn't that much performance gain that is noticable. eventually your windows intall will rot so save it till then
it's the stability gain that i like

Balsy · « **Reply #2 on:** September 13, 2005, 07:43:23 AM »

I do with 2 sata 7200 drives. The most noticable difference is how quickly you can do a spybot check , or adaware check, load up the AH game and textures etc..

Balsy

buzkill · « **Reply #3 on:** September 13, 2005, 08:12:44 AM »

now that u mentioned it...that kind of stuff is alot faster....just been running raid for a year and started takin it for granted....till i used a friends gateway(single SATA 200gig) that i remembered how fast some things really load on mine:rolleyes:

jpeg · « **Reply #4 on:** September 13, 2005, 02:58:28 PM »

Keep in mind that even if one of your drives goes bad you will lose all your data.

Vipermann · « **Reply #5 on:** September 13, 2005, 03:24:37 PM »

I run 2 rapter 75GB's in RAID 0 for my programs and 2 36GB rapters in a RAID 0 for my system files.

I've found a nice increase in performance during loading of games and prgrams as well as the limited video editing that I do.

The comment that was made about losing all your data is very true though. Backups are always your friend.

vatiAH · « **Reply #6 on:** September 13, 2005, 04:25:58 PM »

Thanks guys for the quick answers

buzkill · « **Reply #7 on:** September 13, 2005, 07:06:57 PM »

you're right about the backups...i had to re-do my raid install 3 weeks after set up(software prob...my fault).so i slaved my 40 gig IDE drive in and put all my driver setup files and everything i needed to keep on it,re-installed on the SATA, and got up and running in about 45 min. without having to use 1 CD, and now i still use it for backin up tax info and stuff like that, and if i cause another crash, i can boot off the IDE and do whatever i need to recover the SATA

Vipermann · « **Reply #8 on:** September 13, 2005, 09:07:51 PM »

Also you can use ghost to create an exact match of your RAID setup. I bought a 300GB sata drive and do a weekly ghost of my setup. It's setup as a batch program and scheduled to run at night so I never have to worry about it.

38ruk · « **Reply #9 on:** September 13, 2005, 10:21:17 PM »

i just raided 2 7200 rpm drives and i noticed a decent performance gain in writes , and a less noticable read bump up aswell. Id say if you have the 2 drives , and you dont have to purchase anyother hardware (raid controller ) go for it , make sure you bench it with the single drive , and then after the raid 0 is installed . ATTO is a decent benching util . MY writes when from around 50 mb/sec to 80mb/sec, my reads went from 30 mb/sec to 45 mb /sec . 38

buzkill · « **Reply #10 on:** September 14, 2005, 02:20:58 PM »

just re-intalled on my raid for the first time in 9 mos....no problems, just wanted to start fresh....and WOW....now i remember how fast it really is....now i gotta get AH back on