What do you gain out of using a RAID setup?

[BChico]

What is the point of using a RAID setup? (Not being cocky, lol)

 

[Desmoquattro]

Faster access time...that's all. Not much use for casual users or gamers. More useful for people working with pictures that are huge...will double the performance of one hard drive provided you have two drives in RAID 0. but since gamers are power users...they get them anyway. There are other RAID setups like 1 or 10(1+0) and so on...but I don't think people usually set them up this way anyway.

 

[BChico]

What do the 1 and 0 mean? How many hard drives would be used in this configuration? Would this be good for me, i am heavy into viedo editing and photoshop?

 

[dowxp]

hd tach read on 2 75gxps in raid0

i disagree with faster access times... i get 11.5 ms. um, you basically get faster transfer rates. its supposed to be faster access, but u dont. cpu overhead is very high too. check sig for comp..

0 - isnt technically raid, because it isnt redundant. at least 2 hd's. data is processed and is split on both drives. software has high cpu overhead, 15 to 20%, hardware = money = no cpu overhead. increases failure by 100%, but who cares. =) just back up often. preferred for data transfers.

1 - is raid, hard drives are mirrored, so backup is easy. preferred for security and sensitive data. best if used with ntfs.. or whatever. 2 drives at least.

goodluck

 

[Vegito]

I use raid 5 with a 64mb cache, so with 4 drives, almost everything flies plus if one drive goes bad, it still runs till i replace that drive and all my scsi drive have 5 year warranty instead of 3 so if they fail, i still get a drive within 5 years... plus scsi are usually 10k or higher with more cache..

 

[BChico]

By mirror you mean same data on "x" drives?

 

[Pariah]

yes.

Edit: Actually, you can only have 2 drives in a mirror. The original and the mirror. Any more than 2 (even numbers only) will be either RAID 10 or RAID 0+1 depending on how it is implemented.

 

[dowxp]

lets not go raid5... = $$

anyways, yes, all drives are mirrored.same data across each drive

 

[BChico]

Thats pretty neat, no backing up all my crap, how much would it cost to setup a raid with my existing stuff, what would i need?

 

[John]

Brad, are you cracking RC5 for Team AnandTech will all of that horsepower?

 

[BChico]

I was, but i have been out lately, i gotta get it going again...

I have a bigger problem though, when overclocked my system past 140 fsb and my 3dmark score went down, i am using stuffpcr, check my stats for comp information...ahh i cant figure this out!

 

[SUOrangeman]

I thinking of trying an IDE RAID5 setup using 4 IBM 60GXPs and a 3ware adapter (hopefully with full support at ATA100). I'm not totally convinced yet, but I wouldn't mind the bragging power.

-SUO

 

[Dually]

a headache, go scsi (Ultra2 Scsi 10,000rpm lvd or higher).

 

[bret]

trust me theres nothing that you can lose from using a RAID setup