best way to partition raid 0

ard-tullaich · 23 Jan 2010 at 23:08

Looking for some expert advice. Is it best to partition raid 0 in dos when you set up raid or do it when loading windows seven. My thoughts are the fastest performance is at the bigining of the hard drive. so i thought to partition my f3 500gb drives to 300gb and then the remainder for the second partition. Then if i understand rightly all the appplications and win 7 will be on the fastest part of the disc ie; the begining of the hard drive

ard-tullaich · 24 Jan 2010 at 00:42

Thanks for reply -

I would like to partition the raid 0. Do I do it whilst setting up raid 0 in boot menu as I have this option, or should I partition the raid 0 drive when in the advanced menu whilst installing windows 7?
Which is the correct way?

ard-tullaich · 24 Jan 2010 at 12:15

thanks all for your help. See my other threads to see if you can help me with my question about crossfire setup

ard-tullaich · 24 Jan 2010 at 13:13

rpstewart said:
No. You create a single array in the RAID BIOS then partition it as normal during the Windows install.

So when i partition during instalation of windows. My operating system will go on the beginning of the hard ie the fastest. providing i put the operating system on the first partirion i make?

ard-tullaich · 24 Jan 2010 at 15:32

Thank you rpstewert for your help

ard-tullaich · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:53

Just a few photos showing what i was playing with in raid in boot.

Any thoughts any body tried this with only 2 drives

ard-tullaich · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:57

just trying to upload pictures

ard-tullaich · 24 Jan 2010 at 22:02

when i first set a raid 0 in post . I set up raid 0 with the 2 samsung f3 500gb drives and when it asked me the size i chose 300gb .then with the remainder i set up raid 0 again using what space was left on the 2 f3's.

Kept on experimenting and with the second go i made a raid 0 300gb and made the remaining space between the 2 f3's a mirrored. just mucking about having never played with raid before. this was what i was asking at the begging. Whats the best way to partition a raid 0 .
I am going with the advised set raid 0 in post unpartitioned and then partition the raid when loading win7 in the advanced menu.

ard-tullaich · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:52

see my understanding is the fastest read/right/seek of any hard drive is the outside of the platter.
The hard drives have a fixed speed. And read like a turntable from outside in.
Where as CD/DVDs read from inside to the outside of the platter but to keep the quality the same over the entire disk they are variable speed.
So to get the best out of my win7 64bt and programmes i have all ways partitioned my operating hard drives to around 15-20% . There fore using the outside of the disc for best performance.
And as this is my first time using raid i needed to know when to partition my raid 0.

Could any one recommend a good raid card?

ard-tullaich · 25 Jan 2010 at 19:04

Found some good hard ware ones for £60 3ware 4port sata.
I thought about ssd but its still new tech and drives not big enough yet for storage.
Needing all this storage for my Photography . Just lost 300gb of wedding work and i don't ever want to go through that again ! It was the backup hard drive as well which was only switched on 3 hours a day to back up