Raid 0 on 500GB F3's

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Going to buy 2 F3's for my new gaming rig because i heard they get nearly 250Mb/s R/W in Raid 0, now my question is what are the fail rates of the Raid for Gaming uses or should i just stick with them both as normal ?

thanks

Michael
 
okie dokie... ill probs just do them in raid 0 just for the speed ive had my old ide drive for like 5 years and its fine so...
 
According to the Google Study and others, modern hard drives have significantly lower failure rates than their predecessors, making RAID0 much safer. In addition there is an increased failure rate seen during the first three months, but if it survives that, the next 5 years don't increase the chance of failure.

I've crunched some numbers and get this for your chance that the RAID array fails:

3 months - 18.5%
IF it's not an "early death hdd" then :
1 year - 3.44%
2 years - 6.77%
3 years - 9.98%
4 years - 13.08%
5 years - 16.07%

So with modern drives like the F3 the odds are that the array should last 5 years without any hassle. generations out 3+ years ago were more like this:

1 year - 15.37%
2 years - 28.37%
3 years- 39.38%
4 years - 48.70%
5 years - 56.58%

They of course also suffered from early death, but I don't have any data on the extent so I can't give the 3 month numbers.
 
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Does overclocking increase your chance of a RAID array failing? When I had my chip at 3.2, my array failed after a few weeks, now it's at 3GHz it's been rock solid for a year.
 
Robbie G said:
Does overclocking increase your chance of a RAID array failing? When I had my chip at 3.2, my array failed after a few weeks, now it's at 3GHz it's been rock solid for a year.
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Yes it can do, the reduced stability and higher temps can increase the chance of an error which can ruin the array. It won't be an actual issue with the disks themselves though.
 
Feel free to use RAID0, it'll be awesome.

However, while you run it you need to feel comfortable with the idea that if it suddenly got wiped/caught fire, you wouldn't lose anything significant (except time spent rebuilding it).

Spend the money on a backup system. Make it take regular snapshots or whatever, of all important data, on all your drives. All platter-based drives are subject to failure (Hell, I had one on my backup device fail last month!), so always behave as though it is just about to break.

Seriously, HDs are cheap and backup is easy. Do it. And go Raid0 on your main drives and enjoy the speed AND peace of mind!
 
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