Software RAID 0

[goobernoodles]

I just recently found out a dead old 36gb raptor of mine was still under warranty for about 15 days, so I RMA'd it... and they sent back a 74gb raptor. Since I'm already running one 74gb, I figured... I might as well just stripe the drives.

Granted, it'd just be the onboard RAID, is there any other downside besides the possible data loss? It's just for my home machine, with nothing critical on it.

Would there be much of a performance increase, or are there budget RAID cards that would be worth the investment?

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: goobernoodles
I just recently found out a dead old 36gb raptor of mine was still under warranty for about 15 days, so I RMA'd it... and they sent back a 74gb raptor. Since I'm already running one 74gb, I figured... I might as well just stripe the drives.

Granted, it'd just be the onboard RAID, is there any other downside besides the possible data loss? It's just for my home machine, with nothing critical on it.

Would there be much of a performance increase, or are there budget RAID cards that would be worth the investment?

Just use the ICH9R, and set-up the RAID in the RAID BIOS...

Done Deal..

In by 9 out by 10 ... yada.. yada.. yada..

 

[Blain]

I would think about RAID 1.
It actually does give a slight perfomance bump over a single drive in something (reads or writes... I forget which).
And you get redundancy on top of that.

 

[goobernoodles]

Honestly, I'd rather just have the larger space of RAID 0. Redundancy is of no importance to me, as I'll only be running the mainly just the OS and games off of these drives. Any performance increase will be an added benefit.

I think the drive I'm getting back may be the newer rev. with 16mb of cache, and my current drive may only be 8mb of cache. That shouldn't cause an issue should it?

 

[Blain]

no

 

[postmortemIA]

you should be able to install raid on fly using intel matrix software

 

[lopri]

Noise can be an issue if you're sensitive. (w/ Vista)