what should I use my raid 0 setup for?

[rocadelpunk]

I've always wanted to have a raid 0 system...now I can.

I have 2x 120gig 8meg hardrives in my posessesion, and a highpoint ata-100 controller...


right now I have a 40gig ibm 60gxp with my windows install on it and programs...the 120 gig is just a storage medium atm.

If I put the hardrives into raid though...what should I use it for? Should I put my windows install on the raid...I'm guessing not...should I install all my programs onto the raid and storage?

any tips on installing raid?

gracias.

 

[DTSS]

Correct me if im wrong, but Raid is useless for average home use. Raid increases write speed only, not read. Therefore, any games or software isn't going to run any better. However, Raid is cool. Buy why go through the trouble?


Summary:

RAID-0 is the fastest and most efficient array type but offers no fault-tolerance.
RAID-1 is the array of choice for performance-critical, fault-tolerant environments. In addition, RAID-1 is the only choice for fault-tolerance if no more than two drives are desired.
RAID-2 is seldom used today since ECC is embedded in almost all modern disk drives.
RAID-3 can be used in data intensive or single-user environments which access long sequential records to speed up data transfer. However, RAID-3 does not allow multiple I/O operations to be overlapped and requires synchronized-spindle drives in order to avoid performance degradation with short records.
RAID-4 offers no advantages over RAID-5 and does not support multiple simultaneous write operations.
RAID-5 is the best choice in multi-user environments which are not write performance sensitive. However, at least three, and more typically five drives are required for RAID-5 arrays

Daryl - DTSS

 

[everman]

It's not totally useless, but mostly useless. I used to have a raid 0 setup here but I never really do anything that needs it. But anyway I'd put everything on it since it's 240g. It really depends how "safe" you want to be.

 

[ChefJoe]

I would suggest you put the pagefile on there and any intermediate files from photoshop or multimedia stuff (pr0n?). I would not suggest putting your OS on a raid 0 based on a 3rd party controller card (too many levels of drivers and things that could have to change) but things you wouldn't miss so much if your HD failed, that's not so bad.

Did you consider setting it up as a raid 1 array instead?