RAID-0

[dEvio]

Is Raid-0 with 2 drives attached to it really almost twice as fast as a single ide channel?

With my current system I copy a 700MB file with average 20MB/s from 1 ide drive to another.
What should I be expecting with an ABIT KR7A-RAID and 2 ibm 7200rpm udma-100 deskstar drives attached to it?


My current system:
2 Maxtor Diamond max plus ide drives UDMA-66 7200rpm.
Asus A7V motherboard
AMD T-bird 1200Mhz

 

[ripthesystem]

you should be expecting the 'click of death'


ripthesystem

 

[dEvio]

What do you mean?

(I'm not English)

 

[dEvio]

But serious now, can anybody tell me something usefull?

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Twice as fast? Probably not. It is faster in certain situations though. When I sold my raid setup I noticed that unraring files and such took much longer without it.

 

[Markfw]

I can't remember the exact benchmarks, and I can't find them on Tomshardware, but I think the performance change was 5%-40% depending on the type of operation and the stripe size. I use RAID0 myself with a 32K stripe size. I find most everything noticably faster and would have to "guess" at a real average of 25-30% for the operations I usually do.

I too would like to know what the "click of death" is.

 

[SnoopyDog]

Click of death.

Is the thing that is bound to happen sometime with a IBM Deskstar. Lost data is normally what you get out of it.

Trust me, I have RMA´ed 3 of them myself.

 

[dEvio]

IBM is not so reliable then
maybe I should just stick with maxtor then....?

 

[Yobbo]

I've had to RMA one IBM so far...the click of death started and I knew I was in for some fun... I haven't had any problems with my other drives (Seagates), but also isolating the one HDD (the ibm) and making sure it stays cold has had mine up and running for like 2 years now w/o any problems.

 

[dEvio]

Well in my whole life i've bought only 2 maxor drives and one of them was already broken when i received it, but got it replaced by maxtor very soon, the other one started giving problems after the garantee period like system hangs when copying, so that one is not usable anymore.

That's why I started looking for an IBM...

 

[SnoopyDog]

As you can see in my sign. I use my two 30GB 75GXP in Raid 0.

Thats very risky, I know. But if you back up your data frequently, I say why not. I runs smothly for six months now. Knock on wood...

I say if you have the drives GO FOR IT. But do not forget to backup frequently.


Just my two cents.

SnoopyDog