Anyone running RAID 0?? What kind of performance increase do you get?

[NFS4]

What kind of performance increase do you get by running two 40GB 7200RPM hard drives in a RAID 0 config vs just one 40GB hard drive?

 

[NeonFlak]

Using raid0 with my two 15gb 7200rpm ata/100 hds does a little over doubling the speed. Also, can someone else tell me. Out of all the harddrives I have tested I have found that Maxtor Diamond Max series of hd performs best in raid setups. Anyone else ever notice this?

 

[fkloster]

...ever think of using the search function NFS4?

 

[NFS4]

<< ...ever think of using the search function NFS4? >>


Yeah, and all I found were threads asking what RAID is or how it works...I don't need the basics, I need performance figures.

 

[Noriaki]

My friend is running two 27Gig 7200rpm maxtors in RAID0 and he thinks it's worthless....it doesn't increase your seek time, just transfer rate. So his benchmark numbers went way up, but in average use seek time is more important than transfer rate, so in practice he's found it rather useless.
He does however do the odd bit of A/V editing, and that's MUCH faster with the RAID0. But gaming and average windows use don't show any improvement.
Got no numbers for you offhand but if you look hard enough there are some reviews of RAID0 so you can see the benchmark numbers shoot up....but in practice it really depends what you do if it's worthwhile.

I like to have two fast drives, one to load my OS/Apps/Games from and have a second one for virtual memory and less used files...then you can have separate seeks for Vmem and Games.

 

[Technonut]

I have 2 40GB Maxtor ATA100 drives on the KT7A Highpoint RAID controller. I think the CPU utilization is alittle high, but I don't notice it, and the performance is good. Here is my HD Tach Score. My Random Access Time dropped from 9.5ms on just the single ATA100 port, to the 8.5ms that I have now.