IDE RAID?

[sillymofo]

I have the ASUS mobo with onboard RAID controller. The question is, is it worth it for me to put two drives together and build a RAID0? Of course the drives are UltraATA133 (Maxtor), IDE.

 

[Zepper]

If you do a lot of disk intensive work then it might be worthwhile. Most would never notice in typical usage patterns. Also with RAID-0 you need a bullet proof backup plan - IDE RAID-0 seems to be unusually crash-prone...
.bh.

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: Zepper
If you do a lot of disk intensive work then it might be worthwhile. Most would never notice in typical usage patterns. Also with RAID-0 you need a bullet proof backup plan - IDE RAID-0 seems to be unusually crash-prone...
.bh.

All I'm really looking for is to cut the seek time in half... no redundancy needed. Do you know where I can get good info on how to set this up?

 

[AluminumStudios]

I use IDE RAID0 on my Epox motherboard. It's GREAT for the video work I do (particularly when I have apps reading source material from the RAID then writing a rendered file back to the RAID at the same time.)

But make sure you DO have a backup plan, IDE RAID0 can't be considered reliable (however after 1.5 years I haven't had any problems [knock on wood].)

RAID0 increases the transfer rate, but I don't think it will do much for seek times, I mean your seek time (time to move the head to where the data is) will be the same as your physical drives, even in RAID. In RAID the drives read and write different chunks of data simultaenously, but each drive still takes the same X amount of time to move the heads there.

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo

Originally posted by: Zepper
If you do a lot of disk intensive work then it might be worthwhile. Most would never notice in typical usage patterns. Also with RAID-0 you need a bullet proof backup plan - IDE RAID-0 seems to be unusually crash-prone...
.bh.

All I'm really looking for is to cut the seek time in half... no redundancy needed. Do you know where I can get good info on how to set this up?

All you do is install your two drives into your system, enter the RAID configuration thing at boot up, chose either "raid 0" or "for speed" or "for performance" or "Stripped" or whatever it is your mobo calls it. Then, boot up off your winxp cd, hit f6 to tell it you have a scsi/sata/raid driver, pop the disk in when it asks for it, hit... "S" (i believe, it's been a while), let it install your driver, hit enter, now to windows your RAID 0 is the same as one drive, albeit one fast drive.

read http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html thisif you need help understanding how a RAID 0 works. Remember that if one of your drives phsyically dies, you lose all your data.

 

[sillymofo]

Thanks guys. I do have a good "knowledge" of how RAIDs work in general, just not very much practical experiences. 😀

 

[chocoruacal]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo
I have the ASUS mobo with onboard RAID controller. The question is, is it worth it for me to put two drives together and build a RAID0? Of course the drives are UltraATA133 (Maxtor), IDE.

General rule of casual IDE RAID...if you have to ask, you don't need it. Keep things simple, keep them separate.

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: chocoruacal

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo
I have the ASUS mobo with onboard RAID controller. The question is, is it worth it for me to put two drives together and build a RAID0? Of course the drives are UltraATA133 (Maxtor), IDE.

General rule of casual IDE RAID...if you have to ask, you don't need it. Keep things simple, keep them separate.

This is my lab rig, so I have to emulate different environments, even IDE RAIDs. Within this rig, I'll even have a SATA drive also (not to be included in the RAID).