I want to be you. lol12x 15k sas drives in raid 0
Not works, they have no use for stuff like this
Post your hard drive benchmarks!
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Any idea what stripe size to use with 2x 150GB Raptors and Vista64?
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Whats the MTBF for those drives, must be good to be still ok when divided by 12
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HDD's in RAID 0 are fast mmmmk?
Spits out rice crispie!! holy mother of Scooby Doo!!
12x 15k sas drives in raid 0
Not works, they have no use for stuff like this
Which drives are they, what controller are you using, what size stripe you running, writeback/thru, caching, favourite chocolate?
You running off expanders?With MTBFs of around 1.4 million hours (seagate) the 12 would still last an average of 13 years - should be fine
Should get quicker level loads - usually work putting windows/swap on the Raptor for the fast access time and your big data transfer stuff (games!) on the Raid 0 - then add more drives to get more speed
Can someone give me a little clue please!
Im gonna be setting this up later.
128KB
Can someone give me a little clue please!
Im gonna be setting this up later.
Since you're going in fresh I'd have a play around before you install anything - try it at different sizes to find the best for your rig - I found little difference with mine, but 64k was a dog (half the speed of the others for some reason) - well worth the extra 15 minutes it takes to set/bench each one.
Sometimes the smaller stripe size can have a negative effect.
It all depends on what file sizes will be written to disk.
For editing video a larger stripe is beneficial.
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Well im just going to be using it for loading games, running the os/apps things like that. Wont be doing much video work or stuff like that.
So you reckon 128k?
seems to be the one of choice for many.
I personally CBA having Raid 0 for windows.
I find a single 150 GIG raptor is fine.
Games and other stuff etc.. on a 1 TB raid Raid 0 array
Yeah, but I managed to pick up a brand new 150GB Raptor for a £100
So could not resist the deal.
So for stripe size its a toss up between 64 & 128k.
Whats gonna help loading large files like BF2 Maps etc?
Games files can be quite big
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I measured the average file size for a bf2 mod recently and it came to an average of 120k per file
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Any file smaller than the stripe is NOT RAID0'ed so to speak. i.e. it will be placed on one or the other disks.
I would highly recommend smaller stripes unless you are doing video editing. The O/S is the main stay, and for this I would recommend 32KB. 16KB requires too much defragging all the time. 32KB is a happy medium between a good OS speed increase and good gaming performance. I would not suggest running 128KB as the OS just wouldn't benefit. Most files for an OS are tiny - .dll's etc and would highly likely be below 128KB. Most are around 20KB or so. This is why I suggest 32KB. Games will still load quicker, but the large cache files may not benefit as much as if it was a large stripe. The question is, how much of playing a game is actually the map loading, and how much is the reading of DirectX files etc and other files to bring everything into motion?
Just my 2p anyway.
I would highly recommend smaller stripes unless you are doing video editing. The O/S is the main stay, and for this I would recommend 32KB. 16KB requires too much defragging all the time. 32KB is a happy medium between a good OS speed increase and good gaming performance. I would not suggest running 128KB as the OS just wouldn't benefit. Most files for an OS are tiny - .dll's etc and would highly likely be below 128KB. Most are around 20KB or so. This is why I suggest 32KB. Games will still load quicker, but the large cache files may not benefit as much as if it was a large stripe. The question is, how much of playing a game is actually the map loading, and how much is the reading of DirectX files etc and other files to bring everything into motion?
Just my 2p anyway.