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 Posted: Sun, 22nd Jun 2008 12:14 Post subject: Raid 1+0 |
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I have a couple of 500GB drives sitting here and one in my system now. Any advantages to using them in a RAID 1+0 set. I am thinking of installing Vista on this set and using it for my OS and games drive. Would it be better just to use this set as a data drive and leave my OS on a single drive? Thoughts? Ideas?
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| Posted: Sun, 22nd Jun 2008 13:19 Post subject: |
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I have been doing this computer shit for years. Why do they push RAID as an advantage on desktop boards? Just another way to charge more for a motherboard I guess.
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Sun, 22nd Jun 2008 13:27 Post subject: |
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from my experience with raid for desktop pcs:
raid1 is noticable when reading data for large multimedia programs (games, video- and music-production) and raid0 is noticable in environments where you write loads of data to your disks (multitrack recording, video-rendering, dvd-ripping), so depending on your needs, i d at least go with raid1 for added security. The bigger the disks get, the bigger the risks of losing alot of data. Raid0 only if you re doing write-intensive tasks.
and with noticable i mean, you really want to have that added performance, if you can, as it really makes things faster
or go with that thermaltake blacX hdd-docking station, so you can use the hdds for back-up or writing your pr0n-files to the disks so they dont hog your machine 
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| Posted: Sun, 22nd Jun 2008 13:39 Post subject: |
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Imho use a separate drive (or two HD in a RAID 0 array) for your OS and a RAID 5 array -if available- for all your data/backup. If you do not gain much speed with your RAID 0 array it is still a good and cheap way to extend your OS hard drive space.
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| Posted: Sun, 22nd Jun 2008 13:40 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Would it be better just to use this set as a data drive and leave my OS on a single drive? |
Yes yes yes yes yes. Forget this RAID thing ever happened. The advantage for a normal user/gamer is fucking miniscule. Not to mention you need to fiddle with RAID drivers etc.
Not to mention you can't read the disks on another PC, incase of extreme clusterfuckiness.
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| Posted: Sun, 22nd Jun 2008 13:47 Post subject: |
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That has been my experience in the past with RAID 0. The speed difference is miniscule and loosing a drive is devestating with RAID 0. I thought with SATA and RAID 1+0 it might show an advantage.
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| Posted: Sun, 22nd Jun 2008 14:29 Post subject: |
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@ $en$i
You should know that benchmarks are nothing like real-world applications. They mean nothing.
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I don't remember where and what they were but certainly not some artificial and meaningless ones, and basically you will read your data from three disks on a four disks RAID5 array versus only two for a four disks RAID1+0. 
