RAID 0, SATA performance?

[Kristi2k]

I am thinking about implementing RAID 1 or 0. Is the more of a performance gain than just using a single SATA drive? This will be for a gaming system.

Specs are in the sig.

 

[Kristi2k]

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[VTrider]

RAID 1 basically would mirror your data for redundancy and safety, not exactly to be viewed in terms of performance. RAID 0 on the other hand would give you a performance boost, but only when transferring large amounts of data (like loading maps inbetween games, ect.). I run a RAID 0 array on my video editing machine and although I game on it regularly, the gaming rig i just built for the brother with 10,000RPM Raptor SATA drives I consider a better choice, better yet RAID 0 x 2 raptors and you'll be plenty happy. 😉

(btw: there are many threads here on this topic, so you might want to get your flame suit out)

 

[tallman45]

Raid 0 shines with large files like video or photo's (RAW). For loading most OS/Apps you may very likely see better performance by having 2 single drives on 2 separate channels. Load OS on 1, Apps on the other. Each scenario is differerent so a lot of tuning will get you the best performance benefit

 

[spclwpns]

It's the only way your going to 'light that box up' without throwing more money at intel (for now)..... Benching, performance for my box is about double (55 something single drive, 105-110 something 2xHDD RAID 0).
Reality is faster starting, smoother play has been well worth it for me.... Hell, I've even started to buy RAID cards 😉

But then again, some peeps do without.... (*shrugs*) perception I quess.....

 

[Ripple]

Originally posted by: spclwpns
It's the only way your going to 'light that box up' without throwing more money at intel (for now)..... Benching, performance for my box is about double (55 something single drive, 105-110 something 2xHDD RAID 0).
Reality is faster starting, smoother play has been well worth it for me.... Hell, I've even started to buy RAID cards 😉

But then again, some peeps do without.... (*shrugs*) perception I quess.....

I hate to hijack this thread but,
You may be able to answer a question for me.

DO you think that a PCI Promise Fast Trak 150 TX2 would be faster than an onboard VT8237 SATA RAID config running 2 x 80 GB Maxtor SATA drives. RIght now I have these drives on a Gigabyte K8VT800 mobo and I think the last benchmark I did rate them at 60MB/sec. in a RAID 0 config.


The VIA vt8237 is the southbridge of the chip set and from what I now read it is actually a software raid implementation.