Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Frost on December 17, 2001, 11:09:00 PM
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Is there a big advantage to having a RAID motherboard to the average user? I'm thinking of upgrading along the same lines as Ripsnort and after reading the responses I am looking at the Abit KR7A. Just not sure whether to go RAID or not. Opinions?
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Just read an article (don't remeber where, Tom's?) reads are faster (twice) writes are slower for some reason.....
In summary it said for games they (Maximum PC is where it was)would get 1 fast drive...
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maddog there are many different types of raid. On raid-1 (mirroring) read is a bit faster but write slower because all data has to be written on 2 hd's at the same time.
On raid-0 (striping) the data is split on two harddrives, doubling your hd space and almost doubling read/write speed. Bad part with raid-0 is that its not redundant, one disk fails -> you lose all data.
If you have backup and you're looking for some IO power, raid0 is the way to go (if you have ide-raid and only 2 hd's..)
Some boards support also raid0+1 which is a combination of above but needs 3 disks. It's almost as fast as raid0 but as failsafe as raid1.
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RAID 10 or 0+1 needs four disks. You're thinking of RAID 5 which needs n+1 disks.