Raid worth it??

chaders · 29 Aug 2006 at 21:14

Hi All,

With any luck my new system is arriving tomorrow. I've ordered a pair of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB's for it. Is it worth setting these up as a RAID 0 array for speed or just leave them as 2 seperate drives and keep windows/apps on one and everything else on the other. It's been 3 years since I built my last system and I'm a little behind the tech curve.

Thanks in advance.

celliott · 29 Aug 2006 at 21:21

These drives are going to be quick anyway so its upto you really. Personally I would favour two seperate disks as you have more storage space. Unless you are running a lot of disk intensive apps then raid probably isnt worth it.

Conman · 29 Aug 2006 at 21:21

According to CustomPC several months ago, you will not get much performance increase from Raid 0 and Raid 1 and you will risk losing data.

However, I suspect people is doing Raid 0,1,2,0+1,1+0 in this forum and they seem to be happy the performace. Maybe they could post some test result of their set up. Dig more you will see

celliott · 29 Aug 2006 at 21:24

Benchmarks and tests are all well and good but will you be using all that bandwidth?

If the rest of your new rig is top spec then a Mirrored Raid is probably a good option.

chaders · 29 Aug 2006 at 21:32

celliott said:
Benchmarks and tests are all well and good but will you be using all that bandwidth?.

Thats a fair point. The system is mainly for running Flightsim and I'll probably treat myself to a modern FPS. I'm starting to think a RAID 0 set up may well be more trouble than it's worth.