RAID0, 1 or none at all?

DoubleCheese · 8 May 2007 at 14:06

I'm bulding a PC for gaming and photo editing mainly and would like to know whether its worth setting up a RAID array or not. I've got two 250GB WD Caviar SATAII 16MB Cache drives and a Gigabyte DS3P board. I've also got a 160B WD Caviar ATA100 8MB Cache that I was going to use just for backups incase I went RAID0.

So, is there much benefit to be had as these drives are already pretty fast on their own?

naro · 8 May 2007 at 15:29

The trend now is to use use Raid 0 for OS and apps while your important data would have to be stored in a separate drive.

Participant · 8 May 2007 at 15:39

Yes it would be worth it. Just get the striping size right for your application, probably 64k.

Alexrose1uk · 8 May 2007 at 16:02

Aye, its especially useful for laptops, due to thier low individual read/write speeds. My laptop has 2 drives raided with a 64k stripe I believe,a nd although the find time is 15ms, rather than the more usual 8-9ms, but the read speed is average 66MB/sec which is exceptional for a 5.4RPM HD system.