Any reason not to do RAID0 with 2x1TB Hitachi drives?

[CZroe]

Any reason not to do RAID0 with 2x1TB Hitachi drives? Will it kill seek times? Only serve to add latency? It'll be a quad-core system with 4GB RAM, so I think I can put the maximum transfer speed of RAID0 to use.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

To add to the RAID 0 posts, ad naseum <sp>, if this is your only hard drives in the system, don't do RAID 0. It will not be implemented well enough to make a difference on your system unless you have a specific need for it (ie database analysis, etc). And the processor isn't going to put the storage subsystem to use, you are. What do you use your computer for? Regardless, if that would be your only hard drives in the system, put one as boot, and the other as backup, and you'll be far happier.

 

[CZroe]

Well, I imagine that even a 5% decrease in encoding times would total to a lot when were are talking multi-hour video encodes, but I just finished reading an Anandtech review of this drive in RAID0 that saw nearly 30% improvement vs. 5% when it was CPU limited. Considering that this is typically CPU limited and yet mine will be juggling a ton in memory at once with four course, I'd imagine that I could do a DVD recoder or a Blu-Ray encode decently fast for once. It's still going to be a gaming system primarily, but I don't see why I'd do any of the video work on a slower system with this in the room.

I planned on putting in six 500GB Hitachi 7k500 drives but there don't appear to be 64-bit drivers for my Promise SuperTrak SX6000.

 

[xitshsif]

I've never tried it, but what I seem to read is that what is gained in performance is more than overshadowed by RAID-induced headaches.