What Is Best RAID-0 Stripe Size For ABIT KX7-333R?

[ThaPerculator]

I have a ABIT KX7-333R, and just ordered 2 Maxtor 80GB 2mb Buffer ATA133 7200 drives and am wondering what is the best stripe size for this board when i run in RAID-0? I haven't recived the 2 drives yet, but would like some input on what to run.

 

[ukDave]

i have same mobo and also just ordered 2 maxtor 60gb drives.

i am using 64k stripe size, as recommended by Anandtech:

this article is a little old, but should have relavent results 9the highpoint controller is only the previous generation).

RAID Guide

dave

 

[J3anyus]

Your stripe size really depends on what you're going to be doing. Since I do major video editing and other similar stuff with my main rig, I use the biggest stripe size my RAID controller allows. However, if I were constantly working with small files, I would want a small stripe size. Basically, if your stripe size is too high for what you're doing, you won't see any speed increase. However, if your stripe size is too low for what you're doing (like if I was doing video editing on a 4KB stripe size), then you'll overwork your drives and cause them to fail much quicker.