Raid 0 and then Partitioning the drive

Tiger33

Tiger33

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Just wondering?


If you Raid your drives and then want to partitition them - are you gonna get a performance hit by doing this?

i.e 2 x 500gb = 1tb - but you want say 100gb for the OS and then create 2 other partitions out of the others


would this create a performance hit

would it be better to just run the drives without raid and then partitiion say one of the 500gb drives to 250gb?
 
Craig321 said:
I partitioned my RAID setup for a while to test Vista. Didn't notice any performance hit, and got the same results in HDTach.
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what sizes did you use?

and how did you do the partitition?

did you do it through the vista installation and then comptuer management or a partitition tool?
 
Tiger33 said:
If you Raid your drives and then want to partitition them - are you gonna get a performance hit by doing this?
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There is actually the potential for a performance increase doing this. By partitioning the drive you can restrict where the data is placed and limit how far it spreads over the disk. The first partition, by default, will end up on the fastest part of the disk and the restricted size of the partition can mean that the heads are closer to the data they need next most of the time thus improving the apparant seek time.
 
rpstewart said:
There is actually the potential for a performance increase doing this. By partitioning the drive you can restrict where the data is placed and limit how far it spreads over the disk. The first partition, by default, will end up on the fastest part of the disk and the restricted size of the partition can mean that the heads are closer to the data they need next most of the time thus improving the apparant seek time.
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excellent thanks mate

i think ill create 3 partitions from the 1tb raid 0

great help
 
Tiger33 said:
what sizes did you use?

and how did you do the partitition?

did you do it through the vista installation and then comptuer management or a partitition tool?
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I have a free version of partition manager (v8.5) that I used.

I installed it onto XP, I then resized the C: to 100GB less (so basically I took 100GB from the C: drive), I then used that 100GB to create another partition.

After clicking apply it'll reboot your PC and create the partition before the PC boots up.
 
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