I only have 1 wd raptor 36gb harddrive and was wondering if buying another 1 to run in raid 0 would help? I mean is there any or little improvement because if not then ill just settle with what i've got. Thanks.
raid will only give you a backup
and if I'm not mistaking you will have to format your first disk to run it in RAID with the other as it does the changes parallel, but I might be all wrong on this, raid isnt my specialty
and if I'm not mistaking you will have to format your first disk to run it in RAID with the other as it does the changes parallel, but I might be all wrong on this, raid isnt my specialty
raid 0 is for extra storage/ speed. 2 normal hdds in raid kill raptorsGhost_of_Viking wrote:
raid will only give you a backup
and if I'm not mistaking you will have to format your first disk to run it in RAID with the other as it does the changes parallel, but I might be all wrong on this, raid isnt my specialty
meh was mistaken with with raid 1, sorry for that
asked my good friend google bout raid 0 now. but it seems kind of stupid as when one disk dies all is gone, bit high risk for the extra speed after my taste
asked my good friend google bout raid 0 now. but it seems kind of stupid as when one disk dies all is gone, bit high risk for the extra speed after my taste
chances are 100,000 to one for raid 0 to fail. RAID 5 is performance and its like a single driveGhost_of_Viking wrote:
meh was mistaken with with raid 1, sorry for that
asked my good friend google bout raid 0 now. but it seems kind of stupid as when one disk dies all is gone, bit high risk for the extra speed after my taste
I already have an os on my 1 36gb drive, will i have to clean/format the disc in order to run the 2 drives?.
yes. you will, but with raptors, in raid, itll only take 20-30 min to install windows.
lol after i had my raid configed and formatted, with 2 74 gb raptors and fx - 60 it took less than 7 min to load windows
I wouldn't get caught up in the raid-0 hype for desktop machines. This is a great article at Anandtech for you to read:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2101
I have a single Seagate 7200.9 Barracuda 160GB SATA drive(good review of it at http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2682) and I get real nice HDTach numbers of 241MB/s burst read. I'm usually the top 5 people to enter the game when a BF2 map loads.
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2101
I have a single Seagate 7200.9 Barracuda 160GB SATA drive(good review of it at http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2682) and I get real nice HDTach numbers of 241MB/s burst read. I'm usually the top 5 people to enter the game when a BF2 map loads.
Last edited by Hooten-Delta (2006-08-06 02:40:08)
wow a benchmark... its like stats except for computer parts lol
i was including formatting time in my estimate....my friend has 4 raptors in raid 5 and installed windows (format + all) in 14 minutes flat.
One of my friends was running raid 0 with twin 120 gig hdd's, After a couple months it failed and he lost quite a lot of stuff. It happens more than you think
i've fried 3 disks in the last 2 years, and using it RAID 0 would double the chances
thats why you keep another large raid 0+1/1/3/5/10 (something that accts for redundancy) array for your personal crap and just use the stripe for OS and programs, and any programs/liscenses you D/L you put at least a copy on your back up array just in case