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I want to setup up 2 36gb raptors on raid 0.....
- Thread starter Tret
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/agree. dude you're gonna cry when one of those drives dies for some dumb reason and both drives are rendered completely useless.
i've never done either but i've read plenty and one day when i'm rich i'll go either raid 1 or 5.
raid 5 is sick if you got the money. great speed increase and redundancy.
if for some reason i were ever going to do raid 0 i'd schedule weekly back-ups.
-brian
i've never done either but i've read plenty and one day when i'm rich i'll go either raid 1 or 5.
raid 5 is sick if you got the money. great speed increase and redundancy.
if for some reason i were ever going to do raid 0 i'd schedule weekly back-ups.
-brian
Well, the thing is that I just have 1 raptor and one 200gig hardrive
I need the room since all my games wont fit on the raptor. Also, my 200 gig is full.
All I'm going to use the raptors for is windows, programs, and my games.
and 2 200gigs for my music and all my important stuff.
Should I go a different route?
alcoholbob
Diamond Member
You should start thinking about cleaning up your "media" collection on your 200gb HD lol.
Also, you might consider moving your programs into your storage drive. Regular windows usage is not going to go into deep PF usage. If you have a Gig of RAM, you'd have to keep you comp on for a week before yo ueven start PF usage on just programs alone--unless your common programs 3D Studio Max and Adobe Photoshop.
Just keep games on your Raptor, since only those are likely to require large chunks of RAM where the raptor's PF usage may benefit from.
Also, you might consider moving your programs into your storage drive. Regular windows usage is not going to go into deep PF usage. If you have a Gig of RAM, you'd have to keep you comp on for a week before yo ueven start PF usage on just programs alone--unless your common programs 3D Studio Max and Adobe Photoshop.
Just keep games on your Raptor, since only those are likely to require large chunks of RAM where the raptor's PF usage may benefit from.
BigCoolJesus
Banned
Dont do it
I had a pair of RAIDed 36GB raptors and they sucked. I mean they actually sucked. When i did benchmark tests, a single, lone 7200rpm drive was only 2MB/s slower then them.
Dont do it
Sell off your current raptor and use the money to get another 200GB drive, or sell off all of your drives and get a Hitachi SATA2 (you can disable sata2 so it runs at regular sata speed) 500GB hard drive.
Thats one b*tching mofo
I had a pair of 74GB Raptors in RAID 0 and one day the array got corrupted and I lost all of my data on both drives. No big deal as it was all stuff I could reload as all of my important stuff was on my server (that's what a RAID 5 server is for 😉 ). As other have said, save your money on RAID 0. Get a single 74GB drive if you want the space. Less heat, less money, and less chance of failure.
imported_goku
Diamond Member
He can't utilize the NCQ unless he has a controller that can work with NCQ...
imported_goku
Diamond Member
You probably got only 2MB/s faster than the 7200rpm drive because you had been using the onboard motherboard controller which is BTW horrific for any type of raid configuration. You guys should know better than to use onbaord raid, always should use a discreet solution (a card).
mindless1
Diamond Member
Keep the OS on the Raptor, partitioned off so it's all on the first few GB (sized partition). Ensure you have plenty of Ram so your filecache never gets flushed.
On a 2nd drive, create a large (fixed minimum) swapfile at the beginning of the drive.
Next analyze how you use applications and application data. If the apps themselves are more demanding file I/O than the data, put them on the other drive (from the OS files). If less demanding, put them on same drive as OS. Then of course, put the data on the other drive from the apps.
The goal is to be using (reading and writing) from two independant drives as much, often as possible. Your audio-video files need relatively little performance and can be put in partitions on the back-end (inner, slower tracks) of drives. That is, assuming you're not listening to MP3 while working- in which case you will want them in a partition adjacent to the most used portion on the lesser used drive so seek back and forth is decreased, OR use an audio player that caches entire MP3/etc file for playback so it's not constantly reading it.
If you want a 3rd drive, get one with large capacity and put the games on the front of it. Essentially to get the most performance you want to just leave the slowest (and longest seek to get back and forth from) portions of every drive either unused or used with seldom accessed, low-performance-needs data. However with a large 3rd drive you also have an opportunity to make quick backups should you ever have a drive failure, then at least you loose less data. That's no substitute for removable media or a storage server but rather one more copy of data and a copy made and updated quickly, promoting more frequent backup.
On a 2nd drive, create a large (fixed minimum) swapfile at the beginning of the drive.
Next analyze how you use applications and application data. If the apps themselves are more demanding file I/O than the data, put them on the other drive (from the OS files). If less demanding, put them on same drive as OS. Then of course, put the data on the other drive from the apps.
The goal is to be using (reading and writing) from two independant drives as much, often as possible. Your audio-video files need relatively little performance and can be put in partitions on the back-end (inner, slower tracks) of drives. That is, assuming you're not listening to MP3 while working- in which case you will want them in a partition adjacent to the most used portion on the lesser used drive so seek back and forth is decreased, OR use an audio player that caches entire MP3/etc file for playback so it's not constantly reading it.
If you want a 3rd drive, get one with large capacity and put the games on the front of it. Essentially to get the most performance you want to just leave the slowest (and longest seek to get back and forth from) portions of every drive either unused or used with seldom accessed, low-performance-needs data. However with a large 3rd drive you also have an opportunity to make quick backups should you ever have a drive failure, then at least you loose less data. That's no substitute for removable media or a storage server but rather one more copy of data and a copy made and updated quickly, promoting more frequent backup.
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