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Does RAID-0 only have negligible advantages?

it does usually perform better -- but you must evaluate the risks : a reset or BSOD while writing to the array will likely result in corruption of the array.

imho, raid 0 is not worth it.
 
there has been plenty of discussion and heated debates over this article. if you search around you'll find boatloads of opinions.

i personally found boot-times noticably shorter (but i recently installed sp2 when i broke up the array, so maybe it's just that...) and handling large (*large* = 2mx2m) photoshop files faster, but recently broke up the array in order to have one backup drive.

i think the gereral consensus is that for video-editing and other apps with long sequencial reads/writes it seems to help, in general everydays usage not IMHO.
 
potroast said:
it does usually perform better -- but you must evaluate the risks : a reset or BSOD while writing to the array will likely result in corruption of the array.

imho, raid 0 is not worth it.
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i overclock my system heavily and when i was testing my systems stability at different speeds i had windows lock and crash MANY times...im still running the same installation of xp. the array itself will not go bad, the partition table on the array is what could go bad.
 
For 99% of the uses out there, RAID0 offers nothing in terms of a performance gains. And as someone near the top mentioned, your data is definitely more risky. If one drive fails, you lose the data on both. If data is corrupted on one drive, there's a good chance it will corrupt the second drive's data, since it's striped.

I'm one of the people who has done the extensive testing, and the results clearly say RAID0 isn't worth it to those 99%.
 
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