Three drive RAID 0?

[Richard Dower]

Is this possible?, three WD Raptors running in RAID 0 over the nForce4 Ultra
chipset?


Or do i need 2/4 drives?

 

[Bryan Hoover]

Is this possible?, three WD Raptors running in RAID 0 over the nForce4 Ultra
chipset?

Or do i need 2/4 drives?

What'd ya mean, 2/4 drives?

I don't see why the 3 WDs wouldn't do well in a RAID 0 here. Certainly would
have enough drive connectors for 'em, so you could do software RAID as long as
the operating system supports it.

That's a pretty nice board. I'm reading an article here:

http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/nforce4-ultra/index.x?pg=1

It says the chipset supports 4 SATA ports, and a RAID controller. With the RAID
controller then, you wouldn't have to do software RAID either. Appears to be a
very good article, with lots of benchmarks.

Bryan

http://www.wecs.com/content.htm

 

[jpsga]

Is this possible?, three WD Raptors running in RAID 0 over the nForce4
Ultra chipset?


Or do i need 2/4 drives?

You can have 3 drive RAID arrays. The controller has to have at least 3
ports. They are usually 2 port or 4 port.

If you have Raptors in mind I believe that there is very little speed
improvement in a three drive array. The two drive array is running about as
fast as the computer and associated software will let it run. Usually
peaking to a little over 100MBs in a sustained transfer.

JPS