OMGRAPTOR
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:20 am
Still running great. If I get a better job this summer I may upgrade and sell these 74s.ToxicBug wrote:how are ur current ones holdin up?
yeah but 2x74 raid0 is much much better.AmIdYfReAk wrote:Thanks, now you gave me another thing to add to my upgrade list :/
wow, its actually cheaper to buy that one rather then buy two 74's... thats kind a surprise!
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.
your ignorance knows no bounds.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.teriba wrote:RAID-0 sucks salty balls. The performance gains are negligible except for continuous sequential reads and the negatives are many.
I'm pretty sure.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.mjrpes wrote:Can you do four drives in one big RAID-0?
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.dnoyc wrote:yes, but generally 2 is better for the average user, because most raid controllers only have 2 channels.mjrpes wrote:Can you do four drives in one big RAID-0?
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?MidnightQ4 wrote: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.dnoyc wrote:yes, but generally 2 is better for the average user, because most raid controllers only have 2 channels.mjrpes wrote:Can you do four drives in one big RAID-0?
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.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?
???!?!Giraffe }{unter wrote:FUCK Western Digital and their drives right in the ear...
