Changing Stripe Size

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I want to change the stripe size on my RAID0 setup, its set to 64kb but I want to try something smaller since the game I most play (Lineage 2) seems to load areas much slower than a single harddrive. What program do you guys recommend for swapping over my current install to a temp drive than back over to the newly setup RAID0 array after?

And im thinking when I remake the array I should make a smaller partition, like say 80gbs instead of using both the entire drives for 640gb. Your thoughts are appreciated
 
Any disk imaging software will do, hell even the Windows Vista file copy is robust enough to do it. It just takes time. If your OS is on the array, try getting a Linux LiveCD (Ubuntu is good) and using that.

The smaller partition will do nothing at all to performance, good or bad. Either way if you want to change the array you loose all partitions on it, same with damage or failure.
 
Just wipe it all clean and do a rebuild. Takes time, but it's nice to have a fresh start.
FWIW I've run RAID 0 for years and years and years and have found 32K stripe to be the sweet spot for what I do. Lots of gaming and surfing. Not a lot of heavy large file transfers etc.
 
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