RAID5 vs RAPTOR?

n3x

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Having never setup a RAID array before how much faster would say a RAID5 setup with 3 new seagate 16mb jobbies be compared to a single raptor?
 
the main benefit from raptor is low seeking time so it feels quicker in winXP,

when make a RAID 0 or 5, it'll kill the seek time but write/read are much faster than single raptor

raptor = XP

RAID 5 = large storage (write/read very large files)

years ago i had RAID 0 (2 x 80GB SATA hard drives for XP, it felt slower than single 80GB hard drive but write/read was faster.
 
raid 5 is real slow if your using onboard sata as it will rely
on your processor

real raid 5 setups are done with extenral raid cards
is a lot faster
 
RAID5 is actually quite slow for writes due to the need to calculate parity bits for all the data, for onboard nForce/Intel RAID5 you're looking at only 15Mb/s or so and up to 50 or 60Mb/s for hardware based add in cards. Read speed is good - over 150Mb/s is quite achieveable.

RAID5 is good for storage but I wouldn't recommend it for a boot / system drive.
 
n3x said:
Thats quite suprising! So for a boot drive I would get better performance from a 74gb raptor? :confused:
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correct, due low seek time

with boot drive, (XP) there are million of files need to access, windows/program folders etc

so the lower seek time, the faster the hard drive to access those files.

biggest problem with RAID5, the controller tell 3 hard drives to wait till all of its heads sync'd before access the files hence higher seek time
 
I have had a few raids, both IDE and sata, and to be honest I wouldnt do it again unless it was on a dedicated card,

Raid is just too unreliable, everytime i have used one, after a couple of months the raid has failed.

Everytime this has happened it has been on on-board raid controllers, on various motherboards
 
wesley said:
correct, due low seek time

with boot drive, (XP) there are million of files need to access, windows/program folders etc

so the lower seek time, the faster the hard drive to access those files.
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Do you have something to back this up? I've heared otherwise as in, major increase in booting time with raid.
 
I have had a RAID 5 array on my server for over a year now, and it has not caused any problems, i have even removed the disks during a house move and connected them in the wrong order and it booted without any problems

I usualy see 50MB/sec reads and are currently RARing a file into multiple RAR files with a write speed of 36MB/sec

I am using 6x Maxline II 250GB drives and a Supermicro software raid card
 
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