RAID 0 Question, can i have 4 drives ?

[TrEEcH]

Is it possible to have more that 2 drives in a raid 0 configuration ?

what's the limit ?

i'm guessing it would be fast in a 4 drive config...

 

[HigherGround]

yes it is, for example Promise Fasttrack66 has two channels, and you can have up to 2 drives on each IDE channel, but at this point the tranfer rates (with 4 drives) would oversaturate ATA66 capabilities.

 

[Fandu]

If your talking IDE RAID, then 4 is the limit. If your talking SCSI RAID, then 32 is the limit per dual channel controller. But you can have as many controllers as you can fit.

 

[Wizkid]

Yes, but not all controllers allow you to install more than one per computer... such as some of the Adaptec ones...

Some site did a benchmark with 4 drives on the promise, the speeds were pretty sweet

 

[TrEEcH]

some link to 4 drive review would be nice

well, my next cpu will prolly be an thunder/duron and i know abit new mobo might have raid on it ata-100, that would be good

 

[Fandu]

I've never heard of problems running more than 1 adaptec card in a system although I run exclusivly Tekram cards, no problems running 4 controllers in the same system.

 

[Jhhnn]

Tomshardware has the workup about the Promise controller with 4 drives in raid0, and a bunch of other configs. Big article, pretty thorough.

 

[eelw]

How many drives can be used for RAID0 under WIN2K?

 

[TrEEcH]

good thread, let's keep it going ...