performance differance when raiding?

[killadoob]

This is a good point. As long as you're running a RAID controller and Windows 7 or Vista that has built in driver support for the controller, or you're comfortable in figuring out how to integrate a RAD controller driver into a Windows XP or later installation you shouldn't have problems. Point is, MAKE SURE you have everything you need before wiping your system (Installation disks, drivers, bootable flash drives etc. etc.) or I can promise you you'll soon be looking for troubleshooting solutions on this forum with the help of a mate's PC

I've been down that road... I'll always miss my 9GB's of BangBus porn I once lost when my RAID failed.

Bwhahahahahahaha

Always back up the porn!!!!!!!!

 

[RaptorSA]

Bwhahahahahahaha

Always back up the porn!!!!!!!!

Actually, NO, I was talking crap. I just remembered now the reason I lost my beloved BangBus was because an Ex girlfriend convinced me she hated porn and she'd leave me if I kept it.
What did Dr. Gullible Fail here do?! Yes, yes, he deleted it. Worst decision in my sad long history of bad decisions (I know, it's a quote fro Jurassic Park, THAT's how cool I can be).
Next time I'm dating a bloody porn star, if only this atrocious visage would somehow spontaneously evolve overnight into something more palatable.

/BadSelfEsteemWednesdayFailToTheFukkenMaxAtLeastIhaveBigDickHolyHellIveBeenEditingThisLinkForFifteenMinutesBecauseOfHatingThisBloodyJobGetMeOuttaHereWantToEatPorkchopsDamnLookAtTheSpiderOnMyDeskLetsGoHomeItsFourTwenty

 

[snail]

i am running windows 7 x64 ultimate, have the asus p7p55d-e pro board (supports raid 0, 0+1 and 5 as far as i know). i have a few quick questions that i am not totally sure of as yet....

1) will it improve benchmarking?
2) will it improve gaming?

i know it will boot windows faster, that i have gathered, but just unsure of the above questions, and if yes to both, what kind of performance difference (% wise) would i be looking at. Take note i would be using this HDD in raid 0, http://www.prophecy.co.za/western-digital-wd5001aals-caviar-black-500gb-sata2-7200rpm-p-82288.html

 

[killadoob]

I am not sure about benchmarking but it will improve game load times.

I recall battlefield 2, it took half the time to load maps with raid. My advice is stop wondering and test it for yourself. Wicked stuff for a bit of low end speeding up

 

[snail]

it a lot of money just for a slight improvement that may not make a worthwhile difference. Anyway i will consider......ok ok ok...more than likely get another hdd and do raid for once in my life, hell you only live once right.

 

[MiY4Gi]

Ok, so far I know Intel have some set-up on some of thier newer mobo's where you can use 2 drives to make a raid 0+1.
Basically it uses 50% of each drive to make a mirror and then stripe the two.
Generally a raid 0+1 with 4 drives is the cheapest and moderately safe.
Raid5 would be more expencive, but mostly this is done via software and would be slower than raid0+1, also more expencive.

If you going the raid way for a boot drive, it can become messy on XP and Vista, as you would need a flipping stiffy for the drivers.
Also you would have to re-format all the drives in a raid.

That doesn't make sense. The whole point of striping (RAID 0) is to use 2 SEPARATE hard disks at the same time to speed up throughput. Similarly, the whole point of mirroring (RAID 1) is to duplicate data across 2 separate hard disks, so that if one fails, the data is still kept intact. Therefore, it's pointless to stripe or mirror 2 partitions (what you must have meant by using 50% of the HDDs) on the same hard disk.

For the same reasons, even though it's possible, it's pointless to RAID 0 (stripe) a single HDD.