what stripe size for 2x74Gb Raptors ?

Mr Spoon · 25 Feb 2006 at 17:10

I've read through loads of threads and there seems to be mixed advice, so whats the current thought ?

My system is purely for games such as Battlefield 2, CS:S etc.

thanx.

Mr Spoon · 25 Feb 2006 at 17:12

oh, another thing which to use FAT32 or NTFS ? i always use FAT32 cause i can see the drives from a simple boot disk and the last time i tried NTFS it had poor performance (ie more stuttery in games).

Mr Spoon · 27 Feb 2006 at 10:49

i went for 64k FAT32 in the end ( i never had any probs with FAT32)

HDTach shows a constant 110Mb/s but this doesn't degrade towards the end like a lot of peoples benchmarks do. A lot of people say that benchmark results do not equal real life results and that larger stripes (ie 64k +) would benefit larger file access.

with a single drive the i was getting about 55 Mb/s so its definatly worth going for RAID imo.
anyone raided the new 150Gb Raptors yet ?

Mr Spoon · 27 Feb 2006 at 13:35

i dont think i want journallnig - sounds like an overhead.
dont really care if its not as efficient on disk space.
dont really care about encryption or compression.
never had an issue with file limit of 4Gb,

so why else should i switch ?

not convinced yet