RAID 0 Raptor Stripe Question

braz2kuk · 11 May 2007 at 15:20

Hi,

Just wondering i have two raptor drives in RAID 0 and was wondering what is the best stripe size to use on the array, bearing in mind this array is being used only to store the OS and a couple of windows utilities.

Thanks

Olly · 12 May 2007 at 10:15

jbloggs · 12 May 2007 at 12:36

I am using a stripe size of 32KB, and a cluster size of 4KB (XP Default) on 2 x 74GB Raptors (8MB cache), tried a few stripe sizes, and I found this the best size to run XP on, and for working with large video files.

Olly · 14 May 2007 at 14:58

surely if your handling lots of large files, a larger stripe would be more beneficial ?

MightyMatt · 15 May 2007 at 23:02

i use 2 36gb's with stripe size 16k (strictly windows only) and it literally flies