2 X 320g seagate 7.200 10 raid O ????

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2 X 320g seagate 7.200 10 raid O

Just bought 2 of these drives to run in raid O anyone useing these already? hows the performance? i use 2 36g 15000rpm scsi ultra 320's for XP but i want to dual boot with vista on the seagate's ICH raid O to see what its like. i dont want to get rid of my XP instalation untill iam happy with vista!

so anyone useing these drives could you post your experince's so far!

cheers!

matt
 
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I've got 2x250GBs in RAID0:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17636930&highlight=minstadave

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Very fast, not noisey, reliable :)
 
I've just setup 2 of those very drives in raid0 this afternoon.

Was concerned about the noise (read a few posts complaining about them being noisy) but they're very quiet and very fast!
 
I've played with raid before a bit but never had to work this out as its always been a fresh install
I've already got a 250gig 7200.10 installed in my system
is there any way to install another 7200.10 and just update it so they are both in a raid 0 array without losing the install I have on there currently?
 
Yes but only in certain circumstances.

NVRAID will let you configure a single disk as RAID0 or RAID1, then add a second and migrate the array onto the two disks, I've no idea if you can do the same on an Intel controller.

Now what I'm not so sure is whether you can reconfigure the SATA controller into RAID mode without having to clear the data on the disk. If you can then you might be able to get away with it if you can get the RAID drivers loaded before changing the controller mode but it's kinda risky.

It's the sort of thing that might be worth trying from an education perspective but only if you had sufficient backups etc to allow you to nuke everything and start again if necessary.
 
Slightly related...
My new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB will (hopefully) arrive tomorrow.I only recently discovered what raid is lol but I can see it give's a nice boost :D Is it worth me getting another Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 and raiding them?Would it decrease loading time's in games?Also how hard is it to raid?

Thx for your time :)
 
While putting a pair of drives into a RAID0 array will give better sustained transfer rates than a single drive there is a downside - because half of the data is on each disk if one fails then ALL the data on the array is lost. You have to decide if this risk is worth taking for the benefits.

Actually setting up a RAID array is usually easy, it's just a case of configuring your SATA controller in RAID mode then going into the RAID BIOS and creating the array (be aware that this wipes both disks). You can then install Windows almost normally, you'll need drivers for the RAID controller on a floppy before you start then you press F6 when prompted at the start of the install and follow the instructions. From there the array is treated as a single disk and can be partitioned and formatted in the same way as a normal drive.
 
rpstewart said:
While putting a pair of drives into a RAID0 array will give better sustained transfer rates than a single drive there is a downside - because half of the data is on each disk if one fails then ALL the data on the array is lost. You have to decide if this risk is worth taking for the benefits.

Actually setting up a RAID array is usually easy, it's just a case of configuring your SATA controller in RAID mode then going into the RAID BIOS and creating the array (be aware that this wipes both disks). You can then install Windows almost normally, you'll need drivers for the RAID controller on a floppy before you start then you press F6 when prompted at the start of the install and follow the instructions. From there the array is treated as a single disk and can be partitioned and formatted in the same way as a normal drive.
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Might give it ago then :) My mobo is a Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3, Are there any issues i should be aware off and also my power supply is Enermax Noisetaker 535W.Will this provide enough juice?I have 8 PC fans 1 wireless pci card 1 pci sound card and 2 dvd drives.
 
Hmm, the DS3 is a strange one, it looks like the only RAID support is through the Gigabyte SATA controller. Now I have a feeling (which may well be proved wrong) that this is the one which for some reason limits the transfer rate of the array to about 110Mb/s. Hopefully someone can confirm/rebuff this.

As for power, a second disk is only going to add about 25W maximum to the overall load on the PSU so you shouldn't have any problems there.
 
Iv done raid and that before, with 2 raptor drives as well, in all honesty I couldn't see REAL WORLD differences, maybe 1 second or so here and there, also it takes up more CPU to run it, running 1 raptor disk now, more than fast enough, raids not its all cracked up to be, personally thinkin going SCSI 15k+ to install windows on, should fly then
 
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