First RAID0 setup

londonbairn · 8 Sep 2008 at 23:38

Hi guys,

Tommorrow I receive 2x320gb RE3s from here for my main drive (thanks clocka for the influence).

Decided for RAID0 as I want speed and anything important is backed up anyway, so it is not vital for data recovery and what not. The bottleneck in my PC is definately the HD, I feel it lets me down sometimes when I have 8gb and a quad core processor at the disposal.

Going on a Asus Maximus so the ICHR9. What stripe size should I go for? This is for general usage (gaming, working etc).

Thanks.

jbloggs · 9 Sep 2008 at 10:07

rafster said:
Going on a Asus Maximus so the ICHR9. What stripe size should I go for? This is for general usage (gaming, working etc).

I tried different sizes quite some time ago, 16KB, 32KB, 64KB and 128KB, and found that a stripe size of 32KB was the best for all round "general" usage...

londonbairn · 9 Sep 2008 at 14:39

Thank you, just installed it now.

It definately feels snappier now compared to the WD 500GB SE16 in before

londonbairn · 10 Sep 2008 at 00:45

Came back tonight and switched the PC on, the drive constantly clicks, tried on another PC and it's dead! Not even a day old yet

smee · 10 Sep 2008 at 07:48

Don't sound like it's raid0 fault, could be bad HD's. " Clicking not good " don't let this put you off raid, it's very fast, but like most things only let down by the hardware.

What drives did you use.

superfly · 10 Sep 2008 at 09:52

i had this clicking years ago and i put it down to the raid0

my disk also died, but that was a long time ago now, thought raid controllers/disks had improved now??

jbloggs · 10 Sep 2008 at 10:47

A HDD "clicking" is generally not a good sign, usually means the HDD is on its way out. Setting up RAID0 has NOTHING to do with the failure of your HDD, I have run HDDs in RAID0 for a number of years now (on ICH5/7/9/10/R conts), and in all that time, no HDD in the RAID0 array has died.

londonbairn · 10 Sep 2008 at 10:49

It does not detect in the BIOS anymore (the drive in question). Tried on other PCs and the same. I doubt RAID0 would have anything to do with it as it was less than 24 hours old and sitting in a very well ventilated case (Antec 1200).

londonbairn · 10 Sep 2008 at 17:29

Thanks OCUK, service is definitely good these days.

Ordered a replacement (paid for) and the faulty one is being sent back for a refund (RMA). Painless to sort out.

Thanks.

Major_Disaster · 12 Sep 2008 at 11:29

Did you loose any data? Shows you how important backup is with RAID0...

londonbairn · 12 Sep 2008 at 12:40

Nope, I store anything crucial on a WD320gb passport drive, work laptop and my server and/or secure online space I have with work.

I never have anything on my main drive in my main machine which is valuable.

All that I lost was the time to reinstall Windows

domthecondom · 12 Sep 2008 at 13:11

I have my 2 x raptors in Raid 0 and they havn't failed yet. they might be loud

but never failed.

My 300GB Seagate baracude which wasn't raided did fail but then again i had it for a gooooooooood 5 years.

Sorry to Hijack thread but what does the stripsize matter?