How much of a performance increase would I see going RAID 0?

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blairellis

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Specs are in sig. Thinking about adding another of the exact same drive and setting up RAID 0.

How much faster/quicker will the system be? Noticable? Worth the 75 bucks spent on everything setting it up? (HD Cooler, Extra Long SATA Cable, HD itself, etc.)
 
You won't see much of advantage with 2 drives in RAID 0. 4+ drives with a good controller with a lot of cache, however, is a different story.
 
any increase in performance is negligible, and not truly worth the increased cost and risk of data loss.
 
I for one have experienced an improvement using raid 0, with 2 inexpensive WD SATA 80GB drives in RAID 0 - I get an average transfer rate of 102 mb/s, I have a single non raided RAPTOR drive in the same machine - my average tranfer rate is 76 mb/s, and a regular SATA 7200rpm drive usually benches around 55-60 mb/s.

my quick verdict- RAID is faster- just remember to back up - its more finiky

i had a thread for a question on HD tach- it shows some results
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1196084
 
FragMan said:
I for one have experienced an improvement using raid 0, with 2 inexpensive WD SATA 80GB drives in RAID 0 - I get an average transfer rate of 102 mb/s, I have a single non raided RAPTOR drive in the same machine - my average tranfer rate is 76 mb/s, and a regular SATA 7200rpm drive usually benches around 55-60 mb/s.

my quick verdict- RAID is faster- just remember to back up - its more finiky

i had a thread for a question on HD tach- it shows some results
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1196084
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The real kicker is: Do you play HDTach average transfer rate all day?
 
drizzt81 said:
The real kicker is: Do you play HDTach average transfer rate all day?
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no i dont.
however, the question was, Is there a performance increase? the simplest irrevocable answer is : Yes

What we didnt delve into was, if the increase was applicable to the task at hand. that my friend is room for debate.

for me .. if you do video, make video ... then yes. if you game. er... then no. not reallly. if you dont do anything but surf the internet then ... no. not even if you had 4 raptors or cheetahs or barracuda drives.... no.
 
FragMan said:
.. if you do video, make video ... then yes. if you game. er... then no. not reallly. if you dont do anything but surf the internet then ... no. not even if you had 4 raptors or cheetahs or barracuda drives.... no.
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There it is.. Media encoding, large file manipulation, extracting etc. then yes AID 0 is beneficial. Games etc, the normal load time performance increase is ~3% hardly worth it.

(RAID 0 is not RAID, it is AID 0 lol, not redundant at all)

So the answer is that it depends on what you use your computer for.
 
Lazn_Work said:
There it is.. Media encoding, large file manipulation, extracting etc. then yes AID 0 is beneficial. Games etc, the normal load time performance increase is ~3% hardly worth it.

(RAID 0 is not RAID, it is AID 0 lol, not redundant at all)

So the answer is that it depends on what you use your computer for.
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Quite true.
 
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