Raid 0 worth it?

[jsbush]

I've got two 30gig maxtors 7200rpm and a fasttrak raid 66 controller.

I have on 30gig in this computer with a 20gig. The other 30gig is on another computer. Would it be worth the hassel of transfering all the data and putting the two 30gigs in raid 0? Will I see a big performence increase?

 

[jaydee]

Depends on what you use it for. Are you using a lot of I/O intensive tasks?

 

[Woody419]

The January 2002 issue of Maximum PC has a great article on just that very topic.
"Once and for all, we answer your performance questions on RAID, multi-processing, competing memory standards, competing motherboard chipsets, videocards, and more."

 

[neuralfx]

man this has to be the 3 raid-0 post i have seen today, exact same subj and everything .. well yes it depends on what ur doing, whether or not your going to see a big improvement, with the fasttrack controller, which is basically software raid. well that is what it is, you may not see much, if you really want to do raid, look into a 3ware 6200 .. also, check out http://www.storagereview.com .. good luck ..
-neural

 

[jsbush]

I am using it mainly for games, and office tasks such as word proseccing and internet.

 

[mschell]

RAID 0 will give a performance boost to applications that use large files like Audio/Visual and working with large Photoshop files although the difference is only 10 to 15% faster at the most. R/W with small files could actually be slower depending on the speed of the controller. RAID 0 will allow the sum of two drives capacity appear a one drive, a good thing for giant video capture files.
I don't think RAID 0 should be used for the boot drive due to the hassle of installing the OS and backing up the drive. Most OS disk stuff is small files that don't stripe well so they would load no faster than a single drive and since the controller sits on the PCI bus, overclocking could cause the card to start corrupting data and then you can't boot the system or get strange errors.