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teriba wrote:RAID-0 sucks salty balls. The performance gains are negligible except for continuous sequential reads and the negatives are many.
I think it was a pretty big jump in performance for me. I notice that I tend to load into games much faster than anyone else, I can queue a directory of 10,000 mp3s into Winamp in a few seconds and Windows Explorer doesn't lag when hopping around folders or partitions. Oh and copying a DVD takes considerably less time now. I can do a single drive copy (compressing from 8gb to 4gb) in 30-45 minutes.
teriba wrote:RAID-0 sucks salty balls. The performance gains are negligible except for continuous sequential reads and the negatives are many.
As system drive and the drive I export footage to, it works excellent! Gonna expand from two to four drives in the future to gain even more speed.
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mjrpes wrote:Can you do four drives in one big RAID-0?
You can do as many as your RAID chipset will support. Most will do at least 4. You may want to consider doing a RAID 5 if you have 4 drives, which would give you a good balance of speed and fault tolerance, in case a drive dies you can recover.
mjrpes wrote:Can you do four drives in one big RAID-0?
yes, but generally 2 is better for the average user, because most raid controllers only have 2 channels.
They do? My mobo had 2 controllers each with 4 channels. I'm pretty sure I can even combine them as 8 channels. I haven't really looked into it though cause last time I did RAID 0 with 2 drives it was only about 5% faster than a single drive.
mjrpes wrote:Can you do four drives in one big RAID-0?
yes, but generally 2 is better for the average user, because most raid controllers only have 2 channels.
They do? My mobo had 2 controllers each with 4 channels. I'm pretty sure I can even combine them as 8 channels. I haven't really looked into it though cause last time I did RAID 0 with 2 drives it was only about 5% faster than a single drive.
Which controllers do you have? I tried the SiL controller first and the performance gain was laughable. Then I tried the nVidia controller and got a huge increase in numbers. Isn't there a type of raid that works across controllers in case one of the controllers fail?
bitWISE wrote:
Which controllers do you have? I tried the SiL controller first and the performance gain was laughable. Then I tried the nVidia controller and got a huge increase in numbers. Isn't there a type of raid that works across controllers in case one of the controllers fail?
Probably the same as you. SiL and the nVidia ones on my nf4 mobo. Not sure about working across controllers, I thought I saw that somewhere in the mobo docs that you can add drives from both controllers into a huge raid array, but I could very well be wrong. In fact it sounds too good to be true, but I mentioned it cause I thought I had read it.
