HDs in Raid 0 - Need Advice.

[MachoSasquatcho]

Hello,

This was my first time attempting to use Raid 0 and I was looking for a critque if my performance was on par or if I needed to be doing something else to optimize my performance.

I'm using 2 Samsung F3 Spinpoint 1TB drives.

Here is the HD Tune SS:

 

[Red Falcon]

Those figures look good to me.

Is this hardware or FakeRAID?

 

[MachoSasquatcho]

Those figures look good to me.

Is this hardware or FakeRAID?

Since I don't know what FakeRAID is I'm going to guess it's just hardware, just using the RAID controller on the mobo listed in my sig.

 

[Vengance_01]

FakeRaid is referred to when the raid controller does not have dedicated hardware and its own cpu to process the raid calculations. IE all raid built into mobo chipsets besides high end server boards are Fake Raid. BTW the numbers look normal. Whats the issue?

 

[MachoSasquatcho]

FakeRaid is referred to when the raid controller does not have dedicated hardware and its own cpu to process the raid calculations. IE all raid built into mobo chipsets besides high end server boards are Fake Raid. BTW the numbers look normal. Whats the issue?

No issue, it was just my first time configuring a RAID array so I wanted to make sure all was well.

Thanks for the quick responses.

 

[Red Falcon]

Since I don't know what FakeRAID is I'm going to guess it's just hardware, just using the RAID controller on the mobo listed in my sig.

Yeah, that's FakeRAID, aka motherboard RAID.

Dan_D is right, FakeRAID is a stupid name. It really needs to be changed, there really isn't anything "fake" about it, other than it tricks the OS into having the CPU do the work through the drivers rather than the controller, but still, kinda silly imo.