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brendy said:
Can anyone actually substantiate these claims with figures, my hp notebook nc6230 (centrino duo t5600 1gb ram 80gb sata hdd)and i couldn't see any difference with a 1gb disgo stick of flash memory.
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That depends on the application.
Some things will not see any obvious gains, plus there maybe other bottlenecks stopping the benefits on any given system.

1GB of system ram is on the slim side as it is for vista so even with readyboost there will be allot of HDD access unless you had 2GB of Readboost.
But then again it maybe that you system just wont get anything from it.
 
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Final8y said:
Just googled one drive raid0 but you have 1+0
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Supported by all hardware controllers, both SCSI and IDE/ATA, and also most software RAID solutions.

Hard Disk Requirements: Minimum of two hard disks (some may support one drive, the point of which escapes me); maximum set by controller. Any type may be used, but they should be of identical type and size for best performance and to eliminate "waste".
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You will not see any speed gains will a single drive raid0.
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even with 1 hdd i do see more speed using raid then without raid
 
ROFL, how can a single drive running RAID0 (other than existing at all) actually be faster?

All RAID0 does is split load between 2 drives. That's all there is to it. There's no fancy work going on. It's just 2 hard drives doing their best. If you have, as you are claiming, a RAID0 setup with 1 drive, then there is no possible way at all for there to be a speed increase. You've just got stripping enabled in Windows - that's even worse than having the BIOS manage it (which it wouldn't because you can't have RAID with 1 drive...) let alone a dedicated controller.

Perhaps your new setup is cleaner, and as such accessing the hard drive less, but you'd get that with a single drive.
 
this_is_gav said:
ROFL, how can a single drive running RAID0 (other than existing at all) actually be faster?

All RAID0 does is split load between 2 drives. That's all there is to it. There's no fancy work going on. It's just 2 hard drives doing their best. If you have, as you are claiming, a RAID0 setup with 1 drive, then there is no possible way at all for there to be a speed increase. You've just got stripping enabled in Windows - that's even worse than having the BIOS manage it (which it wouldn't because you can't have RAID with 1 drive...) let alone a dedicated controller.

Perhaps your new setup is cleaner, and as such accessing the hard drive less, but you'd get that with a single drive.
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mate... u can say or think whatever u what..

i know my own system...

every system is different and acts differently... i keep saying this.....
 
gareth170 said:
mate... u can say or think whatever u what..

i know my own system...

every system is different and acts differently... i keep saying this.....
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Rubbish. Single drive RAID is useless and I'm surprised the controller even let you configure it that way.
 
NathanE said:
Rubbish. Single drive RAID is useless and I'm surprised the controller even let you configure it that way.
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come on... why you guys always try and put people down... maybe its rubbish to u but it works for me.. u don't know my system like i don't know yours..understand...

and yes im getting ****** off with people putting other people down...
i know a lot about computers.. im on them all day/everyday...
 
gareth170 said:
i know a lot about computers.. im on them all day/everyday...
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You'll probably find most of us are...

Some of us also work in server rooms, with servers, using server technology, of which you'll probably find RAID (0) is one of them. Or you would if you could be bothered to do any research. You obviously haven't done any, as you've plainly got no idea what the hell RAID is.
 
this_is_gav said:
You'll probably find most of us are...

Some of us also work in server rooms, with servers, using server technology, of which you'll probably find RAID (0) is one of them. Or you would if you could be bothered to do any research. You obviously haven't done any, as you've plainly got no idea what the hell RAID is.
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hey..

your doing it again putting me down..

i already know about raid.... i know its for 2 hdds, im not stupid!!!! i can't use ide sata because windows freezes also i can't use JBOD mode because windows won't install... only raid0 mode works correctly... understand

u don't know my system..

i don't put u down so why put me down
 
Nobody here is "putting u down" - they're just disputing your nonsensical claim that RAID on a single HDD is somehow faster than...well, normal. It sounds like your system has serious problems if you can't install Windows without having to trick it into thinking you have RAID.
 
TheVoice said:
Nobody here is "putting u down" - they're just disputing your nonsensical claim that RAID on a single HDD is somehow faster than...well, normal. It sounds like your system has serious problems if you can't install Windows without having to trick it into thinking you have RAID.
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but they don't know my system.. they can't say "it shouldn't be faster or shouldn't be doing that" only i know because im using it... if it working just be happy..... my system haven't got serious problems, i just can't be *** to sort it... i like it how it is on RAID0... is that ok.. if it isn't i don't care...

every system acts differently

im not here to argue...
 
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We aren't insulting you, we are just saying that a single drive RAID array isn't going to improve performance like you were claiming it to.

We don't need to know your system to come to the 100% factual and indisputable conclusion that a single drive RAID is not going to improve performance what so ever. If anything it will ever so slightly reduce performance because of the additional processing overhead that RAID brings.

We didn't say it would cause stability issues :)

Most RAID controllers will throw up an error if you try to create an array with just one drive. Was your controller using a beta BIOS or something?
 
NathanE said:
We aren't insulting you, we are just saying that a single drive RAID array isn't going to improve performance like you were claiming it to.

We don't need to know your system to come to the 100% factual and indisputable conclusion that a single drive RAID is not going to improve performance what so ever. If anything it will ever so slightly reduce performance because of the additional processing overhead that RAID brings.

We didn't say it would cause stability issues :)

Most RAID controllers will throw up an error if you try to create an array with just one drive. Was your controller using a beta BIOS or something?
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nope isn't beta.....

so why im i seeing improve performance?? explain that
 
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