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Raid 0

edit: get 2 quality drives... i recommend segate barracuda's

Last edited by claor (2007-04-21 06:45:23)

2 raptors in RAID0 ^^

It's only 80€ more. And if you consider buying a raptor, that's not much

Storm, read my first post please:

> It would cost me less to buy 2 of those drives and RAID0 and sell my Raptor than to buy a new Raptor.

I am doing that if I go RAIDing, because like I said, even 150GB isn't that much.

Yeah I only have 1 raptor and do need high capacity.

Not sure where you heard that, but two drives in RAID0 is NO FASTER than one drive alone. RAID0 is a mirror array. Basically you have two identical drives, if you create a file on drive 1, it creates that same file in the same physical location on drive 2. This is used for backup, to make sure you don't lose files.

RAID1 is a stripe array. You have two drives and the system reads it as one large drive, and writes a byte to each drive. Example: byte 1 - drive 1, byte 2 - drive 2, byte 3 - drive 1, byte 4 - drive 2 (in it's most simple form).

+ Over 600GB Space after Windows Installation
+ Faster than a Raptor, and over 8x the space
+ Techgage rated 10/10 editor's choice for the drive as mentioned above
- If one drive fails, it's all failed
- I've never RAIDed before (Asus P5W DH Deluxe, does allow RAID0)

1 - You will only have the same amount of space as one drive if you RAID 0. If you RAID 0 two 500GB drives, you will still only have 500GB of space total.
2 - It is not faster than a Raptor.
3 - Yes, it is a very good drive.
4 - No, RAID 0 is a mirror array - both drives are identicle.
5 - It's quite easy actually, you should be able to figure it out.


Hope I cleared up the confusion.

Smithereener wrote:

CrazeD wrote:

Not sure where you heard that, but two drives in RAID0 is NO FASTER than one drive alone. RAID0 is a mirror array. Basically you have two identical drives, if you create a file on drive 1, it creates that same file in the same physical location on drive 2. This is used for backup, to make sure you don't lose files.

RAID1 is a stripe array. You have two drives and the system reads it as one large drive, and writes a byte to each drive. Example: byte 1 - drive 1, byte 2 - drive 2, byte 3 - drive 1, byte 4 - drive 2 (in it's most simple form).

+ Over 600GB Space after Windows Installation
+ Faster than a Raptor, and over 8x the space
+ Techgage rated 10/10 editor's choice for the drive as mentioned above
- If one drive fails, it's all failed
- I've never RAIDed before (Asus P5W DH Deluxe, does allow RAID0)

1 - You will only have the same amount of space as one drive if you RAID 0. If you RAID 0 two 500GB drives, you will still only have 500GB of space total.
2 - It is not faster than a Raptor.
3 - Yes, it is a very good drive.
4 - No, RAID 0 is a mirror array - both drives are identicle.
5 - It's quite easy actually, you should be able to figure it out.


Hope I cleared up the confusion.

Hm. I thought RAID 0 was the Striped Set and RAID 1 was the Mirrored Set. I think I'll go check it out.

Edit: Yep, I'm pretty sure it is RAID 0 that was the Striped Set because Wiki + Tom's Hardware both say RAID 0 is the Striped Set.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/12/ … index.html - I think this article is pretty relevant to this topic.

Oops....My bad

This is what happens when you try to do techy stuff when you just wake up.

Well in that case, disregard everything I said.

Your drives will indeed be faster than a single Raptor, but only for transfer speed. The Raptor can still access data and read/write a helluva lot faster than those regular drives can.

Building on what jsnipy said i rekon you could...

* Buy another 74GB raptor
* RAID0 the 2 raptors
* Use the raptors for games and OSes.
* Buy a 500GB Seagate
* Have the Segate independent of the Raptors and use it for documents

That way you get speed and space.

Or, go ahead and RAID 2 x 250GB drives, but remeber, how comfortable are you with having all your files with NO REDUNDANCY (thats why some people refuse to call RAID0 RAID, just calling it AID).

Have a look here
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/03/12/ch … raptor_uk/
Cheap RAID > Raptors

EDIT: Someone said RAID0 offered mirroring? Thats completely wrong....

RAID0 = Striping (Speed)
RAID1 = Mirroring (Redundancy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Standard_RAID_levels

Last edited by =Karma-Kills= (2007-04-21 10:15:48)

=Karma-Kills= wrote:

* Buy another 74GB raptor
* RAID0 the 2 raptors
* Use the raptors for games and OSes.
* Buy a 500GB Seagate
* Have the Segate independent of the Raptors and use it for documents

That way you get speed and space.

I'm not made of cash! And like I said, 150GB is too little for my gaming directory. I was forced to un-install COD2 to play PR, only to miss COD2 now. I never want to be in this situation.

Coming from someone with two raptors in Raid 0... Raid 0

How about a single Seagate 750gb drive? Either that or a 500gb and a memory upgrade.

with raid 0 you WILL lose the array at some point, might not be now, might not be tomorrow but it will happen. 

The STR figures look great for a raid 0 but in real world performance you will gain a second or two in things like loading a game, and a few seconds more (3 or 4) when handling say 1.5GB rars.

if you really want to splash the cash, go raid 10 and get the best of both worlds but really, you are spending all that money for literally only a few seconds performance.

I have run raid 10 setups on the desktop for about 4 years now and this is from experience, not hearsay