Quick Question

[turbotom]

Can I convert the HD that Vista is installed on to RAID?

I put Vista on a Raptor thinking it'd be fast enough to not annoy me...but even with the indexing turned off, it takes longer than I'd like to boot up. I'd like to add another Raptor, but I really don't want to reinstall Vista.

Thanks!

Random side note: I'm running a nvidia faikRAID 1 on a couple of 7200rpm drives and it's atrociously slow. I only use it to back stuff up, so I'm not concerned with speed; I ran it in RAID 1 in XP and it was significantly faster.

 

[nerp]

raid 0 with two drives including raptors would be a waste of time and money. Learn to hibernate your computer instead of fully powering down.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

If the boot time annoyed me that much, I'd never turn the machine off. My computers are crunching anyway, so they are never intentionally off.

I don't know about fakeRAID, etc, but I have RAID arrays configured on a Areca controller, and it does anything but increase boot times, because you have to add the time for the RAID controller to boot and do it's memory checks.

 

[turbotom]

Well, I'm talking about Vista's software raid for the OS HD.

Whether I should do it or not aside, can I do it?

 

[nerp]

You can do it. Doing it would be contrary to logic and reason, however.

 

[turbotom]

Originally posted by: nerp
Doing it would be contrary to logic and reason, however.

It'll add disk space and make drive accessing and writing faster.

...unless there something completely weird about Vista that I should know!

Thanks for the input!

 

[nerp]

I have a feeling you're going to be dissapointed when the performance doesn't really increase. Raid 0 with two drives on fake raid is usually a huge dissapointment for first timers.

 

[turbotom]

First timer for Vista...I used raid0 on two seagate drives on my old XP/Ubuntu machine. The performance increase was very very noticeable.

But I'll take your word for it, especially since I'm already using a raptor. I'm always sort of nervous about raid 0.

Do you or anyone know which performs better? Vista's software raid or the motherboard's fakeRAID? I assume it depends on the fakeRAID BIOS.
Ubuntu people tell me that linux' software raid performs about 10% better than fakeRAID.

I'm planning on replacing my 2 RAID 1 storage drives with 3 or 4 cheap drives running RAID 5 or 1+0. Will they perform as terrible in Vista as the RAID 1?

I really do appreciate the input! I don't really know anyone with much Vista experience.