Raid 0?

[alexx]

Hey guys im not sure if I should or shouldnt go raid-0
I do a lot of video hd work and do notice it holding me back on non raided drive compared to pcs ive work on with raid but its the nagging in the back of my head for security that puts me off.

also i have windows 7 pro and snow leopard to be installed so not sure how good it is with dual boot?

anyone offer me a shining light of advice?

 

[Paul11]

i raided for a while and personally didnt find it worth the hassle

what HD's do you have now ?

what HD's are you thinking of raiding ?

once set up it just appears as one drive, so in day to day use its no different to having one drive...

just behind the scenes your pc will split the data over two physical hard drives

 

[alexx]

thinking now after a bit of reading of doing 2x f3 1tb drives 1 for win7 1 for snow lep and then getting 2x 500 samsungs and software raid0 then regularrly back up and use the other drives for storage.. think thats the plan now sounds more reliable

 

[413x]

i found raid 0 for my wd vr better, but not amazingly better, worth it? at the price i paid [2 x £100] yes.. it did make a difference to boot times [i have a lot of start up apps] but more important transferring large 50GB blu ray iso images from drive to drive and game level loading is faster too

i had a little bother transferring my non raid disk image to my raid setup but it worked, and ive had no problems since. i have a pair of 1.5tb drives too and an external 500gb so backing up the 600gb [usually about half full] is a non issue

also this is my first ever raid 0 setup

 

[vsmora]

For disk intensive apps like video editing you may find that keeping the disks independant works better for you e.g. one disk for the reading source files, one for writing the output. That way each disk can spend more time on sequential access rather than the heads having to jump all over the place.

It's easy to test which works best for you. Try copying 2 large files simultaneously, once from the individual HDD1 to HDD2, then once from the same drives in RAID0 onto the same array; time which is quicker.