4drives in raid0

I have found that 64k strip offers the best medium, if you copy any video files onto a smaller stripe than 64k they will corupt easily. 16k being the worst for any DVD work including burning from 16k stripes which ive had more error's than any other stripe size when burning from H/disk

I have tried most stripe sizes and 64k seems the best all round, good for games, good for video editing, and also not that far behind the flat out 16k for that extra 2 seconds in windows boot time!

I ran twin raptors for years without any raid failure useing 64k stripe. you must also consider some driver elements are larger than 16k which can give drivers issue's aswell, had a few sound card driver issue's under 16k stripes.

just my own findings from useing raid O for 5 years + from ata. sata. and now SCSI
 
Personally I have a raid 0 for my main installed apps etc and a seperate mirrored set for backup/storeage works well and if I loose my raid I havent lost anything important.
 
I've found that using more than 2 drives in a RAID 0 array will not give you much more of a performance gain, unless used in server specific applications. However, I have seen that some people appear to have had much better success than others.

Most motherboards don't have the required bandwidth to handle the data stream from 3 or more drives. When you weigh this against the risk of data loss, 2 seems to be the best trade off for most applications.
 
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