Any big difference between (2) Drives in a RAID or (4)?

[BowDown]

I have (2) Quantum 30gig LM-Series HD's. I'm thinking about buying (2) more of these. I can get them at a good price, and figure... WTH (what the hell).

The PCI BUS is limited to 133MB/s isn't it? On a good day I get burst rates of around 70MB/s using the (2) Drives I have... does adding (2) more mean I could possibly burst 133MB/s?

LMK...

 

[Pariah]

You'd be far better off creating two 2 drive arrays. Overall performance would be better and would add flexibility.

 

[BowDown]

Now with creating (2) Array's I really do nothing more than increasing my disk space right? Hmm...

 

[Remedy]

Can you run a Sisoft benchie real quick on your system?

 

[BowDown]

I have... (Yes it's the entire drive, this is not a HDTach Benchie )

http://www.forsaleandtrade.com/mycomputer/images/sandra.jpg

 

[BowDown]

ReMeDy{WcS}... Checked your rig .

Nice HD .

 

[DaddyG]

Check out JonnyGuru's review at Torturetest. The extra drives added to the array had little performance benefits.

 

[Remedy]

Hey Bowdown i just bought a Second LM drive for my RAID 0 Setup in my new dual p3 system i'm constructing.

 

[BowDown]

Word to the wise... If you're going to be using Win2k; DON'T BUY A MODDED PROMISE CARD!

They are junk!

 

[BowDown]

Hmm... that didn't help me much... I need real benchmarks; not some guys text based review using unknown benchmarks.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Pretty ignorant statement Bow Down.

Spin Rite is an industry standard program for benching drives. Little kiddie programs like Sandra do not accurately give benchmarks of IDE drives. Programs like Sandra give ONE NUMBER that is relative and not several numbers that show actual burst read and write and seek times in actual MB/s, etc.

Maybe you should research the softare that you know little about: http://grc.com/