Raid 0

[demon8991]

Hello i've currently got a Samsung Spinpoint 1TB

Was thinking of getting another one and making it Raid 0.

Would this be an easy thing to do and would it improve my performance greatly?

Thanks

 

[rpstewart]

Setting up RAID0 is pretty easy although you really need to do a full reinstall. Whether you'll see a performance improvement is very much dependent on how you use the machine.

 

[demon8991]

Ahhh may wait untill i actually do a reinstall then.

When you say it is subjective to usage can you explain this abit more as i am totally new to this concept.

 

[Locke]

He means that you'll only see the most differences in certain types of PC usage, such as file transfer (Read/Write) as the I/O load is spread evenly among the drives in the array.

 

[Banzai_Joe]

boot and load up times for most things should improve, but again, it is dependent on what app/game you are using.

 

[daz]

In terms of performance, you may find it better to have a solid state drive for your OS. RAID 0 is generally a bad idea - you're doubling the chance of a drive failure and losing all your data.

 

[demon8991]

Yer your right mate i will wait for them to come down in price!

Still far too expensive!

Ive heard they load up vista in just a few seconds is this true?

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

I noticed 10 - 20% decrease in loading times for games.

It was about what I was expecting, but is always a bit disappointing when the benchmarks indicate double the throughput.

My results here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17958445

 

[SteveS]

whats the best stripe size.. that s the question

 

[worthingsaxovtr]

sorry to be thck but new to raid0, why are you doubling your chance of losing data

if your doing an image of the hard drive to an external then surely there is no if minimal risk

or have I missed something glaringly obvious

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Your effectively spreading all of the work accross 2 drives, thus doubling the amount of equipemtn doing the job, thus reducing the time it will take in certain circumstances.

There are other forms of RAID that would also include redundancy RAID0 alone not being one of them.

I've had very few HDD issues where I've actually irrevisibly lost data, Im runnin RAID0 320Gb SammyF1's at the moment shoudl they go down for any reason I have a HDD image ready and all of my documents and stuff are remapped to a seperate physical drive

 

[siege2]

why dont you make an image using acronis for example, switch off, put the additional HD in then, then set it as raid 0 , on boot up put in acronis boot disc in to restore the image from the external drive to the new raid 0 hard drives.

done that a few times.