gonna build a rig, can i raid 0 4 rators? or only 2?

[Boonesmi]

promise also has a 4 port raid card that supports raid 5 (i think its around $170 at newegg)

 

[sharkeeper]

This is pretty damn self explantory.

-DAK-

 

[Esquire]

what does the bar graph mean

 

[Boonesmi]

its just showing the incredible fast transfer rates of 4 x raptors in raid (not sure, but it looks like raid5)

 

[vitalyzh]

I have 4 WD120JB in raid5 with Promise raid card, love it. had one drive fail last week, no data lost. always have one spare on hand.

 

[charlie21]

Originally posted by: shuttleteamThis is pretty damn self explantory.

-DAK-

:Q:Q
Holy sustained transfer rates Batman!
:Q:Q

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
This is pretty damn self explantory.

-DAK-

w00t to that, damn

 

[chocoruacal]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
This is pretty damn self explantory.

-DAK-

*me weeps

Hmm...what to do...I think I'd setup separate RAID 0 arrays, since you'll be using these for temp vid files. I like to jump back and forth between discs when I'm doing vid stuff. To me it seems faster than reading/writing gigs worth of sheisse off the same disk. But this is with my IDE drives...with those raptors you might not notice a difference!

 

[sharkeeper]

On another interesting note, a single Raptor was much faster (i/o-wise) on the MR SATA than on the bargain silicon image controller. The optimisations and execution order handled by the i/o processor on this HBA are readily apparent. This is something you would not see on cheap solutions by Highpoint, Silicon Image, and Promise. Even the 3Ware solutions are inferior.

Overall, it's not bad. HOWEVER, if you were going to spend this much $$$ for an HBA, you'd be better off buying a SCSI HBA of similar caliber which could handle 30 disks! Latest generation 10k SCSI disks are priced on par with the Raptor of equal capacity.

-DAK-