Best way to setup my RAID?

[Tired of the Bull]

I plan to install two Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm drive in a RAID array on my K7T Turbo RAID MB along with another 7200rpd HD (size ?) not on the array.

Is there any advantage to booting from the RAID setup? I intend to use the extra speed of the RAID for video capture but as I understand it my seek and access time will be worse on the RAID. So I had intended to put the OS on the non-RAID drive and use the RAID for the video and CD image burning.

I know many of you have RAID setups so I'm sure there is plenty of knowledge floating around.

 

[Quaggoth]

I would go ahead and boot from the array. Also, if there is any way you can swing the purchase of 4 drives (Even 20Gb ones), do it.

 

[Tired of the Bull]

Does normal everyday computing suffer due to the slower seek times?

 

[lilnnjaboy]

Ok...Thank you for coming to RAID 101. Let me clearify something up for you. RAID 0 which is striping...is faster. Isn't it faster having 2 people work on the same project, then one person doing one? Raid 0 will distribute the information on the 2 harddrives so it has quicker access times. RAID 1 is mirroring which is making a duplicate copy of the first harddrive...that slows you down. If you want both the 0 and the 1, I recommend going RAID 5. Which is redundency. You can get the speed and you can get the back up. There are two IDE cards that I know can do that. SuperTrak from Promise which list price is 435. And the Adaptec 2400A which is currently going for the same price.
Personally for video editing, I would go SCSI, but that's just me. I hope my information could help

 

[Mytv]

I'm currently using 20GB Maxtor hard drives and noticed a clear difference between seek times from 11ms to 9ms.

Easy way to see for your self is to uncheck your hard drive option setting for removable ide under System properties. Once you notice the slower seek times you will want stick with the better seek times.

Sound confusing? Its not.

 

[Ameesh]

im striping 3 20 gigs using the software striping in win2k server