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Striped Raid Question

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  • 11-08-2008 12:00am
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    Kernel
    Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    I'm thinking of investing in two identical SATA drives which I hope to set up as a striped array. Logically, I would think that having data equally split across 2 drives should give me a 100% speed increase (ie. twice as fast) at loading data. I've never used one of these arrays, so I wonder what type of performance increase I could expect? (I have 4gb ram)

    Also, would Ghost or other such software be able to take all the data from my current C: drive and transplant it neatly onto the new striped array, and do it in the correct way?

    Thanks,
    K.


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    Moneymaker
    Registered Users Posts: 9,846 ✭✭✭Moneymaker


    Ive done it before and the performance boost isnt exactly huge. It's definetly not 100% Just buy a Velicoraptor HDD if you want an ultra fast drive.:D


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    alansweeney100
    Registered Users Posts: 263 ✭✭alansweeney100


    I put my two 150Gb raptors in Raid 0 using the Nvidia software and the results were about a 5 - 10% increase in performance.
    Apparantly you can get better results if you use a dedicated controller card.
    I have never used one of these but perhaps someone on here can tell you of their experiences, the software RAID is not worth it.


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    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Moneymaker wrote: »
    Ive done it before and the performance boost isnt exactly huge. It's definetly not 100% Just buy a Velicoraptor HDD if you want an ultra fast drive.:D

    Avoid the Raptors. Heres my 2x36Gb Raptors in Raid 0 compared to a 1Tb Samsung f1 sata

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    Performance boost is about 15% over a single hd, not worth it IMO, (I've these Raptors 3 yrs now tho). Just opt for a single F1 sata, these are the ones with the 32MB cache


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    Kernel
    Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Performance boost is about 15% over a single hd, not worth it IMO, (I've these Raptors 3 yrs now tho). Just opt for a single F1 sata, these are the ones with the 32MB cache

    Excellent info, thanks for the heads up. I'm gonna order a 1tb F1 right now! :)


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