Raid Level 0

dsanders wrote on 11/19/2001, 8:19 AM

Does anyone have any experience in using Raid Level 0? A lot of the new motherboards seem to support it now. Does it give you any big preformance gains in VV? It seems like a cheap way to go. I can get two 40GB 7200 ATA100 IDE hard drives for about $110 bucks each. Along with a new motherboard (or a $70 Raid controller card from Promise) I could 80GB of "Fast" hard drive space. SCSI drives and a decent controller would cost triple this amount.

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jmpatrick wrote on 11/19/2001, 10:17 AM

I've got an Abit VP6, 2 - 30 gig Western Digital 7200 rpm ATA100 drives raided 0. It's been very reliable so far. It scores well with Sandra, too.

It may not out-perform SCSI, since SCSI won't tax your CPU like a MB-based RAID, but it's worked great for me. I haven't tried any RAID cards, so I can't advise there.

jp

jboy wrote on 11/19/2001, 12:19 PM

Raid works great. I've used both Promise's and HighPoint controllers over the past year with zero problems. And 5400 rpm drives work just fine w/raid. Sandra rates my pair of WD 45GB 5400rpm on a HPT at 40-50mb/sec read/write. It's the way to go.

Cheesehole wrote on 11/19/2001, 1:49 PM

can anyone comment on how the cluster size effects performance in a RAID 0 setup? for example, with video, it would be a good idea to set up the RAID ummm 'packet' size to something big like 64K and then would it also help to format the drive with 64K cluster size?

watti wrote on 11/19/2001, 6:36 PM

I think you are in right trak with that as fat 16 sould be faster than fat32 with bigger files, but imho we need someone who knows to answer;pleace