A quick Raid question if I may

oweneades

oweneades

oweneades

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Hi all.

I am in the process of speccing up a new core i7 build and I have a simple question about Raid (most likely 0, stripped).

For my usage (gaming, office work, some dvd encoding) would I actually notice the difference in performance (outside of synthetic benchmarks and points on graphs) between say a good 500GB SATA drive and two of the same drive in Raid 0?

I ask this question and I am currently eyeing up both a pre built (with Raid 0 which strangely is cheaper than buying the same conponents seperately) and my own built machine (which I could save money on by not going Raid). Obviously I don't want to spend more money on a Raid setup if I have to (I could spend it on better memory for example) however if there is a noticable performance gain then it may be an option.

Cheers
 
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17941924

I decided not to bother. Check the links in my OP.

I'm convinced most people who RAID on here are either 1) placebo'd into thinking they are faster by the benchmarks or 2) have legitimate reason for RAID 0, namely commonly dealing with large files / ZIPing / RARing etc.

Since I do not fall into the second category, I believe RAID would be a waste and I would see better performance from two separate disks - one for OS, one for games / swap / apps.
 
I have used raid 0 for all of my systems for ten years or more now and have never had any problems with it, but when the 'new' raptor 150 GB drives camer out I thought that I would use just one of them. One day later I ordered a second because I was so disapointed with the feel of the machine. One of the things that I have noticed over many many upgrade over the years is that it is very difficult to notice an increase in speed, however, going the other way is immeadiately noticable. To be fair I have never gone to the trouble of seperating the OS from swap file and apps ect, but for a straight install, raid wins for me everytime. Try it, nothing to lose, apart from a few hours install time.
 
Thanks for the information guys tahats exactly what I was after. I have read a few benchmarks and tbh I don't think I would notice that much of a difference (if any) in every day applications.

I think I will save a bit of money and get one drive. :)
 
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