Using Windows to Raid two Raid 0 drives.

[ZombiJambi]

I was just thinking about this, and wondering if it would be possible, and if it would actually provide any speed increase.

So to clarify:
I'm wondering what the outcome would be if you had four drives (let's say SSD drives, for example), and you set them up in your firmware RAID as two RAID 0 arrays, of two drives each.
Then install Windows (would have to be on a separate, 5th drive. Also, you could do this with Windows already installed).
In Windows, create a new striped volume using the two RAID 0 arrays that you just set up in your BIOS (well, the RAID firmware screen).

Would this bump up the sustained read/write speed, since that striping is occurring in two ways? Would the potential overhead negate any speed gains?
I don't quite have the hardware to try this out, so I'm wondering if anyone has drives sitting around, and could try it. (I have 3 Crucial C300 64GB SSDs, so I could try it if someone has an extra one of these they don't need, and wanna send it my way haha).

Let me know what ya'll think. Thanks!

 

[imagoon]

You would be creating RAID 0/1. You would see the performance benefits of that RAID level barring limitations of the controller.

 

[schmuckley]

I was just thinking about this, and wondering if it would be possible, and if it would actually provide any speed increase.

So to clarify:
I'm wondering what the outcome would be if you had four drives (let's say SSD drives, for example), and you set them up in your firmware RAID as two RAID 0 arrays, of two drives each.
Then install Windows (would have to be on a separate, 5th drive. Also, you could do this with Windows already installed).
In Windows, create a new striped volume using the two RAID 0 arrays that you just set up in your BIOS (well, the RAID firmware screen).

Would this bump up the sustained read/write speed, since that striping is occurring in two ways? Would the potential overhead negate any speed gains?
I don't quite have the hardware to try this out, so I'm wondering if anyone has drives sitting around, and could try it. (I have 3 Crucial C300 64GB SSDs, so I could try it if someone has an extra one of these they don't need, and wanna send it my way haha).

Let me know what ya'll think. Thanks!

I don't think so.I've tried it with a 2-ssd RAID 0 on Areca ARC 1261 + IRST 2-ssd RAID 0

 

[bradly1101]

I would just use a four drive array. I did that with four 74GB Raptors.

 

[Ketchup]

A modern SSD on it's own is pushing the limits of the SATA interface, so I don't see benefit in doing this. One thing you could do with an idea like that is to combine the benefits of RAID 1 and RAID 0, but that has already been thought of, RAID 5, and pretty much any current Chipset/SATA controller supports this.