Raid1 for OS ICH10 Worth it?

Joe · 4 Nov 2008 at 16:25

Just build my new pc, is raid1 one worth it, The redundency will be good but are there any benefits with read times?

I only ask as i've done it and using 2 7200.8's and the results from hd tach are awful.

what should i be expecting?

bledd · 4 Nov 2008 at 16:27

just get new drives, those one's are really old yes?

Joe · 4 Nov 2008 at 16:39

yeah they're quite old now, still i though they were better than 45mb/s. especially is raid1. Something tells me they should be at around 70mb/s. Also despite being a few years old they're still the silent/reliable drives i've ever had.

I have just bought 2 new F1' storage drives but was hoping these would perform better in raid1.

rpstewart · 4 Nov 2008 at 16:54

45Mb/s is about right for 7200.8s, remember they're 4+ year old technology.

The Intel controllers can do split seeks but that only helps on random accesses, your sustained rate is limited to that of a single drive.

Pandobear · 4 Nov 2008 at 17:36

make sure that the cache is enabled in the driver, on intel boards this means using the intel matix manager software, as they are disabled by default.

Joe · 5 Nov 2008 at 12:07

will do that tonight, thanks pandobear.

Sadgeek · 5 Nov 2008 at 13:48

You won't see any benefits in speed by using RAID1. All that does is mirror the data to two drives. It doesn't read the data from both drives too.

bledd · 5 Nov 2008 at 14:10

imo raid1 is pointless for a home user, just use raid0 or a single drive

take a weekly acronis image, and robocopy your files daily to another drive

Joe · 5 Nov 2008 at 14:31

Sadgeek said:
You won't see any benefits in speed by using RAID1. All that does is mirror the data to two drives. It doesn't read the data from both drives too.

Yes it does, providing split seek is support then read speed should theoretically improve the move disks you add.

Indy500 · 5 Nov 2008 at 14:34

45mb/s doesn't sound right, I have a 7200.7 and the average was about 55-60 on a far older chipset... :confused:

Joe · 5 Nov 2008 at 14:34

bledd. said:
imo raid1 is pointless for a home user, just use raid0 or a single drive

take a weekly acronis image, and robocopy your files daily to another drive

Why do that when i could just have a raid1 setup and forget about it. Also, I do a lot of work remotely and wouldn't want to lose even a days work should my primary drive fail.

I can see what you're saying but i'm a bit weiry at the moment as i think i have a F1 on its way out.