Raid Striping

[cpals]

Hi!

I'm getting an IWill XP333-R w/1700+ processor tonight and I will be having two 40g IBM drives set to Raid 0. I don't really know much about Raid, but I know that the size of the stripes is important to gain the best performance.... what would be the best setting for my mobo/hard drive combo? I'm installing WinXP pro.

Thanks a lot.

 

[Daovonnaex]

64kb as I recall, but try different setting and test the performance, preferrably with Content Creation Winstone.

 

[cpals]

<< 64kb as I recall, but try different setting and test the performance, preferrably with Content Creation Winstone. >>



Do I have to reinstall everything when changing the size? Also, is that program available for download? What about Sandra SiSoft?

 

[Vegito]

you do realize if one drive dies, kiss all data on both drive good bye right ?

 

[cpals]

<< you do realize if one drive dies, kiss all data on both drive good bye right ? >>



The way I see it... I was just going to stay with one hard drive anyways and if that died everything is lost anyways. I don't keep all of my top-secret gov't files on the computer so I wouldn't have much to lose if they did fail. In fact, I enjoy reinstalling software. heh.

I'll just backup every week or so my main files... I'm not worried.

 

[Amused]

Just to be safe, use active cooling and your drives will have a much smaller chance of failing. I've used active cooling since I got an IBM 14GXP in 1998, and haven't had a HDD fail on me yet.

 

[cpals]

Cool. Also, since I'm on the subject... I went to their website and it has no drivers for the XP333-R just bios files. Where can I get the drivers for my mobo?

 

[dj4005]

<< you do realize if one drive dies, kiss all data on both drive good bye right ? >>



You do realize that if your non-RAID drive dies, the results are the same, right?

 

[Vegito]

Thats why they invented raid 1 and raid 5, so if one drive dies, all ur data are still there. I use raid 1 mirror and raid 5, so one drive dies, I got no problem. You people gotta get scsi raids.. the raid 5 gives you performance + protection

There is no proof that active cooling will reduce anything

I can show you hundreds of drive under active cooling and 1/3 of them RMAed..

from maxtor ide to quantum atlas 10K ultra 160 scsi. I can show you all the hd coolers I own and its crap loads of them

Active cooler give you a peace of mind but still, I been rmaing drives under active cooling..

 

[dkozloski]

I realize that most people on this forum are focused on the latest and greatest but there is a lot to be said for older generation technology price wise. I bought an AMI MegaRaid SCSI ultra fast/wide controller with 128 megs of cache memory that is backed up with an onboard battery module for $135 and four 9gig, 10k RPM, Seagate Cheetah drives for $58 each. I configured the setup in what AMI calls a RAID 10 which is both mirrored and striped. This setup will support standby "hot spare" drives. The performance is great and the data is fully protected. When this stuff was the latest and greatest it sold for thousands but now that it is past its prime it is very affordable for the average bear. The only caveat is to look out for stuff that is so old that you can't get drivers for your operating system.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

<< There is no proof that active cooling will reduce anything

I can show you hundreds of drive under active cooling and 1/3 of them RMAed.. >>



Heh... and I can show you hundreds of SCSI drives which failed that didn't have active cooling.. and in the case of the servers we build at my company, you'll see many less RMA's of drives that do have cooling.

Trust me, cooling helps. I wouldn't run any modern SCSI drives without some sort of hdd cooler. You're just asking for trouble.

 

[Vegito]

It helps but it's not require for standard ide drives..
A server is call a server because it builds the cooling for HDDs in, other wise, any desktop running windows server edition is a server

a real server is something that has all essential cooling and magik gimmicks in it.. otherwise everything will fried since it runs a lot hotter

anyway, your server should be sitting in an ac room so you wont even need active cooling, just a really cold room