Raid.

[PotGuy]

Does Raid 0 actually make a big difference? Because from the performance benchmarks (especialy on SATA II) they appear to be huge, but then on forums often people say it makes no difference at all. The reason i want to know is for the same price as 1 74GB Raptor i can get 2 250GB SATA II drives, but i can't afford both.

I know alot of you will be using Raid 0, so could you advise me here?

 

[floppybootstomp]

I been using RAID 0 for over 5 years now and to be honest, it really doesn't make a lot of difference in everyday usage.

The only time I noticed a significant improvement with a RAID 0 setup was when I used two Raptor drives.

In your position, given a choice of 1 x 74Gb Raptor drive or 2 x 250Gb SATA II drives, the two 72000rpm discs would win hands down as my choice, whether you run them as RAID 0 or not.

Raptor drives are good, no doubt, but 500Gb vs 74Gb? No choice, really, imo.

If you ran those two in a RAID 0, you'd probably get benchmarks very very close to a single Raptor drive.

Or you'd still have a good setup if you ran main OS on one 250Gb drive and used other for storage. Also, using a program such as Acronis True Image, you could always have a compressed backup of disc one stored on disc two.

Food for thought eh?

 

[muckshifter]

... it really doesn't make a lot of difference in everyday usage.

1st system manufacturer
"hey fred"
2nd manufacturer
"what"
1st system manufacture
"why don't you put RAID controllers on your 'joe public' boards"
2nd manufacturer
"why? only servers and High end graphic systems need it"
1st system manufacture
"it'll make 'joe public' by two HDs instead of one"
2nd manufacturer
"great, we'll get more money"



This may help ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks

 

[ChristopherP]

Mucks: L O L

 

[PotGuy]

Food for thought eh?

Sure is

Yeah i guess it would be wiser to have 500gb instead of 74gb.

Will Sata II run more effectively than Sata I in Raid 0?

 

[floppybootstomp]

Will Sata II run more effectively than Sata I in Raid 0?

If your motherboard supports SATA II, yes, a little.

 

[PotGuy]

Good cheers guys