Raid Controller worth it?

[dajo]

Thinking of adding a Promise TX2 Raid contoller now that I have two ATA100 7200 drives. I'm interested in speed. Only thing is, even on Promise's website that stipulate significant increase on "large files".

Would this addition to my rig speed things up quite a bit, or would I only notice it in very large transfers?

Thanks!

 

[LethalWolfe]

Unless you are editing large audio and/or video files you won't notice a difference. And when you use RAID 0 all it takes is one drive to fail and you lose everything.


Lethal

 

[TheWart]

RAID 0 here and love it. i do tons of stuff to my comp and RAID is up to the task. it is true that with RAID 0 u have no drive security, so you need a good backup plan

 

[Slogun]

I recently used RAID 0 for my game server. Didn't notice any difference in performance, so I took it apart. Not worth tying up a one hundred dollar drive for in my opinion.

 

[EXman]

dajo,

Hey bro I had the same question... But the answer I kept getting was "Go SCSI!" you know what I did and it works I just traded down (sort of) from a X15 to a Quantum Atlas 10K III cause I could not justify the cost of the X15 but all and all I cannot tell the difference from 3.9ms to 4.5ms still darn fast and kills my old 7200 maxtor. Not to mention the SCSI system does not run into the same IDE channel problem when trying to Burn CDs w/ IDE system (separate channels perform better but scsi there are no worries!)

EX

 

[AkumaBao]

SCSI is nice, but it takes some moolah! I like the mobos with the built-in RAID, (which costs almost as much as a RAID controller) and with two 7200RPM hard-drives you just barely below SCSI 160.