Which HD block size I have to choose when create RAID 0 ?

[Onepagebook]

Hi, Everyone:

Just quick question,Which HD block size(4k,8k,..64K) I have to choose when create RAID 0 ?

My motherboard is Abit K7tA-Raid, HD are dual Quantum Fireball Plus AS (ata100)!


Thank you all, I appreciate that!

 

[dabuddha]

i could use an answer too
i'm not too sure what to use

 

[Fumiup]

Here is the info you need

Look under Disks



<< Enter the Highpoint BIOS menu (using Ctrl-H) and use &quot;Create RAID&quot; to create your RAID-0 array. Select the disks you wish to use, a Block Size of 16k for optimum performance in most situations and then choose &quot;Start Creation Process&quot;.
Reboot the machine using a bootable floppy disk which also contains the FDISK and FORMAT utilities (you will probably need to copy these onto the floppy as Windows doesn't put them onto bootable floppies as a matter of course).
Type FDISK to start this utility. Using FDISK create the partition(s) you require - as a minimum you require one active Primary DOS Partition.
Reboot your machine to activate the new partition(s)
Type &quot;FORMAT C: /Z:32&quot; to format partition C: Repeat for any additional partitions you created. Note that the &quot;/Z:32&quot; parameter formats the disk with a block size of 32x512B=16k - matching the stripe size. This has been recommended as optimum >>

 

[Onepagebook]

Thank you very much!Fumiup! I truly appreciate that information!

 

[dabuddha]

sweet thanks for the info
i've got the bx133 and i got the raid drive working but i can't get it to boot up off of the drive
in my bios, i set all three boot devices to goto the ata-100 controller
and i selected one of the drives to boot up off of
but still no go, it still loads up windows off the 3rd hdd i have in there