Noob Raid 0 question

[Rick James]

I'm running 2 drives in Raid 0 now. Would adding another drive increase performance?

 

[Nothinman]

Sure, as long as the drives and controllers can keep up you can keep increasing throughput by adding more drives. Of course as soon as one of those drives has a problem and you lose the entire array you'll be wondering why you thought it was a good idea to use RAID0.

 

[Rick James]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Sure, as long as the drives and controllers can keep up you can keep increasing throughput by adding more drives. Of course as soon as one of those drives has a problem and you lose the entire array you'll be wondering why you thought it was a good idea to use RAID0.

SWEET. Thank you nothin. I'm not worried about data storage. I have a central server where i store my photo's, music and porn. This computer is just for playing games and surfing the net.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: Rick James

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Sure, as long as the drives and controllers can keep up you can keep increasing throughput by adding more drives. Of course as soon as one of those drives has a problem and you lose the entire array you'll be wondering why you thought it was a good idea to use RAID0.

SWEET. Thank you nothin. I'm not worried about data storage. I have a central server where i store my photo's, music and porn. This computer is just for playing games and surfing the net.

Even if you are just using it for games, you're planning on adding a 3rd drive. With 3 drives, you might break even on performance with RAID5. With 4 drives, you might even do a little better than with 2 drives in RAID0 -- but you have reliability. Lose one drive, and the array can rebuild itself if you replace the bad one.