RAID 0 Advantages vs Diadvantages?

[Seth035]

Should I or should I not raid these 2 drives?

 

[John]

Welcome to AnandTech. I really dig your unique avatar.

These 3 threads should answer your question:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=32&threadid=1979862&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1724644&enterthread=y&arctab=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1164362&enterthread=y&arctab=y

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[SuperFreaky]

if you don't know.... do not RAID them

 

[ShellGuy]

Seth it really depends on what you are doing this for, here is a list to copy and paste for us

1. HD or SW raid
2. What type RAID 0 (Striping)
RAID 1 (Mirroring)
RAID 0+1
RAID 2 (ECC)
RAID 3
RAID 4
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 7 (Proprietary)
RAID 10
RAID 1E
RAID 50 (same as RAID 05)
RAID 53

3. Do you plan to backup
4. Do you plan on trying to use this for performance gains
5. Is this a server for files or sugh or is it a gameing machine


Thanks for the help,
Will G.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

Here's my take for what it is worth.

I have an Nforce4 motherboard A8N-E with 4 SATA and 2 IDE drives.

I bought the 3 SATA drives specifically for RAID0. I bought them small and cheap, since the aggregate size would be larger than I needed. They are 160s.

With HDTach I'm getting 134MB/s. avg speed
my single SATAII is getting roughly 60MB/s.

By the way, I seem to recall that the jump in speed from 1 drive to 2 wasn't all that great, but going to 3 drives was a fairly dramatic increase.

I'm generally happy with the performance for gaming and the like, but...be careful.

I nearly lost the whole set last week when I was messing around with the motherboard. That is the risk. I know that if I lose one drive I'm dead. But I synch my important data about once per week. You would really need to backup the data on a RAID 0 setup.

If you have the ability to boot from a single drive but test your other drives as singles or in a set, you should do that. You might find that your speeds are comparable, so the only question is protection.

that's my advice.