WD raptor questions

[ascarytiger]

Ok I just bought a WD Raptor 74GB 10k rpm and I don't have the money for two. If I were to get a second one later, would RAID be a good idea? I've never used it, nor do I know how to set it up. Couldn't I just plug ion the second one and run them non-raid just fine?

 

[LED]

Couldn't I just plug ion the second one and run them non-raid just fine?

Yes and by next year they'll be something faster...

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

RAID-0 gets you hardly any performance gain from raptors.

 

[imported_rod]

Yeah, they'll run fine without a raid. It's probably actually better to run them without a raid.

RoD

 

[Slammy1]

RAID is something that depends on your usage as it will significantly boost some activities. Then again, there might be other limiting factors like processor speed or available memory. I run my RAID as almost exclusively Windows programming; storing data and whatever is necessary to rebuild on a secondary large volume drive. If you do lots of encoding or you reinstall a lot, RAID is useful. But if you just want to load levels faster on game X, stick to a single drive.

 

[Vegito]

you're suppose to ask him what he needs it for, he never mention anything about speed.. RAID is design for redudancy. RAID 0 isn't even RAID

The simplest RAID level, RAID 0 should really be called "AID", since it involves no redundancy. Files are broken into stripes of a size dictated by the user-defined stripe size of the array, and stripes are sent to each disk in the array. Giving up redundancy allows this RAID level the best overall performance characteristics of the single RAID levels, especially for its cost. For this reason, it is becoming increasingly popular by performance-seekers, especially in the lower end of the marketplace.