RAID 0. When you say no RAID card I am assuming you mean no physical RAID card, but your motherboard has an onboard raid south bridge, like intel's SB ich9r or ich10r. If it's just ich9 or ich10, you cannot do this fakeraid. Check your motherboard model.
I don't know anything on this on nvidia or amd boards. My old 680i could do RAID, had a nice software GUI as well, better than Intel's.
Ya i ment no pci raid card. I have raid 0,1,5,10 on my mobo. I also have a quad core cpu 3.0 and 8 gigs ram. I was reading from this web site that raid 5 and 10 supposedly have better read rates. Raid 5 is just a form of 0 with fail support. Mostly its raid 10 vs raid 0 I guess. But you say raid 0. Ill prob do that.
RAID 5 is nothing like RAID 0, RAID 5 does a long parity calculation, you will want a real RAID controller for that... if you wan't max performance. Also it's write speeds are slower than that of 1 disk. RAID 10 is just 0+1, which will be slower obviously than all hds in RAID 0.
I wouldn't RAID 0 raptors. They are pretty expensive so I'd be too afraid of RAID going. One goes, all goes. Besides Raptors are mighty quick. I'd have one for OS. One for STEAM and Games. One for documents and Media Centre Recordings (if you do that) etc. And the last one as a backup drive. That's just what I'd do. Otherwise I'm happy to grab your Raptors off you if you can't decide how to implement them. :D
I wouldn't RAID 0 raptors. They are pretty expensive so I'd be too afraid of RAID going. One goes, all goes. Besides Raptors are mighty quick. I'd have one for OS. One for STEAM and Games. One for documents and Media Centre Recordings (if you do that) etc. And the last one as a backup drive. That's just what I'd do. Otherwise I'm happy to grab your Raptors off you if you can't decide how to implement them. :D
DigiTM73
I think you're a bit confused here. If one of your drives dies in a RAID 0 array, it wouldn't damage or destroy the other drives, you'll just lose all your data.
My old 680i could do RAID, had a nice software GUI as well, better than Intel's.
JigglyWiggly_
True, but the performance is almost half of what would be seen on an ICH10R SB. I've done a few tests on mine, and the performance is jaw-droppingly low; it's almost comparible with the performance seen on a single drive.
[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]RAID 5 is nothing like RAID 0, RAID 5 does a long parity calculation, you will want a real RAID controller for that... if you wan't max performance. Also it's write speeds are slower than that of 1 disk. RAID 10 is just 0+1, which will be slower obviously than all hds in RAID 0.magicalclick
Yes, RAID0 is fastest with extrememly scary time to lose your data soon. Any of those 4 drives in RAID0 will instantly destory the everything. I extremely against it unless you don't care to lose everything in your entire set of RAID HDDs. People always say that for some odd reason. I have been using Raid 0 for years and have yet to have any problems. If a drive is about to fail you will be warned in advance. There is also something called backup.
[QUOTE="magicalclick"][QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]RAID 5 is nothing like RAID 0, RAID 5 does a long parity calculation, you will want a real RAID controller for that... if you wan't max performance. Also it's write speeds are slower than that of 1 disk. RAID 10 is just 0+1, which will be slower obviously than all hds in RAID 0.Jamex1987
Yes, RAID0 is fastest with extrememly scary time to lose your data soon. Any of those 4 drives in RAID0 will instantly destory the everything. I extremely against it unless you don't care to lose everything in your entire set of RAID HDDs. People always say that for some odd reason. I have been using Raid 0 for years and have yet to have any problems. If a drive is about to fail you will be warned in advance. There is also something called backup. Same here, I have only heard of one hdd fail in my life. I may be 21 but... only one? Seems like if its so scary it would happen more. lol
[QUOTE="Jamex1987"][QUOTE="magicalclick"] Yes, RAID0 is fastest with extrememly scary time to lose your data soon. Any of those 4 drives in RAID0 will instantly destory the everything. I extremely against it unless you don't care to lose everything in your entire set of RAID HDDs.GGameBoy
People always say that for some odd reason. I have been using Raid 0 for years and have yet to have any problems. If a drive is about to fail you will be warned in advance. There is also something called backup. Same here, I have only heard of one hdd fail in my life. I may be 21 but... only one? Seems like if its so scary it would happen more. lol Depends what batch you get... I've had my bad share of hds. Though WD I have only lost one out of about 15 of them. Segate I've had like 2/6 go bad.
Raid o. Unless you're in the hacking military of Australia, all you're gonna need is speed. The other raids i think provide security and stuff. Raid was originally developed for servers.
I found a better working ratio of Western Digital over Seagate myself. I know if one HDD has hardware failure, then the others don't, I sorta said it a bit wrong. I really just meant data. Apologise for the confusion. Running Black Western Digitals, I have tried RAID 0, and now running singles as AHCI. Really haven't noticed one bit of speed difference.
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