Question about Raid0 setup

[Scubastevie00]

I'm trying to convert my drives into Raid0 on my abit KV8 Pro. Now when I chose to set them up in Raid0 it says all data on original disk will be destroyed. Will this delete my copy of windows also? Thanks!

 

[djnes]

Yep, you'll have to re-install everything.

 

[Megalomaniac]

WHY!? whould you wnat to get raid 0?
its the stupidest thing people do!
(unless its only for the OS drive)
with raid 0 you will loose all of your data if there is any problem with any one of your drives..
so your chances of loosing everything have gone up 2 times.
do at least raid 10
or 5

 

[D3v1an7]

Meg has insultingly brought up one reason why you wouldn't want to go RAID 0.

You will increase the chances of losing all your data. BUT, RAID 0 wasn't designed for people who are interested in secure data storage. It was designed for a performance increase.

Unfortunately, you aren't going to see much of a speed boost in the real world. Increased latencies off set the speed boost that RAID 0 gives you.

In the end, you would be better off buying 1 Raptor and installing your performance hungry apps on that.

 

[EnderW]

In the end, you would be better off buying 1 Raptor and installing your performance hungry apps on that.

excellent suggestion

then you can use your current drive for storage

 

[Stugots]

i couldnt justify the cost for a 74gb raptor. ill take the risc of data loss, double my size and speed and take the raid 0 solution.

but if keeping your data safe is important going with the single raptor drive will be just as good as raid 0 with 7200rpm drives.

 

[EnderW]

i couldnt justify the cost for a 74gb raptor. ill take the risc of data loss, double my size and speed and take the raid 0 solution.

doube your size and risk of data loss, yes
double your speed, no

but if keeping your data safe is important going with the single raptor drive will be just as good as raid 0 with 7200rpm drives.

a Raptor will be just as good alright, in fact it will be a lot better

 

[Stugots]

...
double your speed, no
...

for what i do, raid 0 was much faster than a single drive. and i wasnt about to spend 350+$ for 140gb or 220+$ for 74gb, this way i spent under 200$ and have 320gb.

 

[EnderW]

for what i do, raid 0 was much faster than a single drive. and i wasnt about to spend 350+$ for 140gb or 220+$ for 74gb, this way i spent under 200$ and have 320gb.

judging from your specs I assumed you were using your PC for gaming, not as a server, or heavy photo/video editing which are about the only situations where you would even consider RAID0

 

[Stugots]

judging from your specs I assumed you were using your PC for gaming, not as a server, or heavy photo/video editing which are about the only situations where you would even consider RAID0

yes, i do alot of dvd/cd image compiling, and video editing.

my good old celeron 1.3 is my server

 

[Scubastevie00]

So I was looking at my raid formatting utility and if I do go into Raid 1 or so will I still lose all my data no matter what? Uh also. I've never actually reinstalled windows and tried to register w/ the same cd key. Anyone know how I go about doing that. I thought you called but I'm not sure.

 

[EnderW]

So I was looking at my raid formatting utility and if I do go into Raid 1 or so will I still lose all my data no matter what? Uh also. I've never actually reinstalled windows and tried to register w/ the same cd key. Anyone know how I go about doing that. I thought you called but I'm not sure.

RAID1 does not require that you reformat.

I'm not sure what you're asking about activating windows...

 

[hulksterjoe]

dont sweat it.. do your reload and windows will prompt you right along.. Some things to remember..

if you not behind a router then make sure you've downloaded the installer for your firewall
download the latest dat file for your antivirus
preferably download sp1 as a seperate file.
burn to cd


disconnect from the internet
setup your raid, reformat , load windows, load firewall, load antivirus and as many updates as possible, THEN reconnect to the internet.

I've seen a lot of people get viruses and such just in the 5 minutes it takes to redownload these things...

have them ready before

 

[Scubastevie00]

So even if I've already registered windows and then I would format to run Raid0 then just reinstalling windows and it will ask me to register it again and then it will just recognize I've already done it? Its XP Home btw... thanks guys...

 

[hulksterjoe]

it'll go out to microsofts site and try and activate, if the microsoft gods are in a good mood then it'll happen automatically.. if not you've got to make an annoying 5 minute call and just tell them you changed your mobo and they will give you the code maunally

 

[Scubastevie00]

Awesome. Thanks guys. Everything is setup and running fine.

 

[EGGO]

judging from your specs I assumed you were using your PC for gaming, not as a server, or heavy photo/video editing which are about the only situations where you would even consider RAID0

I do heavy amounts of photo/video/audio editing, and RAID 0 isn't an option that makes a difference really. And even then, when it comes to heavy editing, I'd rather know my data is secure than saving faster.

 

[EnderW]

I do heavy amounts of photo/video/audio editing, and RAID 0 isn't an option that makes a difference really. And even then, when it comes to heavy editing, I'd rather know my data is secure than saving faster.

yes, and even in those situations you will usually get better performance with seperate disks

I really don't recommend RAID0 for single user systems

 

[Leadman584]

I also do huge amounts of video editing, and 5 moderately quick raptors (36GB variety), and 2 very quick ones (74GB variety) , both RAID0 arrays are considerably faster than any of these drives alone. For Highest level gamers, I'd strongly recommend a single 74GB Raptor. Partitioning OS/Apps into a 10 GB section, or less if games aren't that huge. At the beginning of the drive, fastest portion, in most cases. Arrays are pointless for over 95% of humanity.

For those who move vast amounts of data into/out of CPU via RAID controllers, the only limitation is the Saturation levels of particular RAID solution. In my case the cap is 150MHz, the 33MHz PCI bus Saturation point. True video workstations cap out at nearly 320MHz. My next rig will have this capability, and use it all.

I have seen what the "experts" claim, concerning RAID0/5, and I have seen the differences, using 4 different RAID controllers. Using one machine with the same drives, there are indeed improvements to be had for those of us that truly need them. Unless you fold, or do video conversions, you will never push you're CPU to 100% usage anyways. Nor will you require the speed benefits of a RAID array. The risks, make RAID0, a non-issue. I have my arrays backed-up every 24 hours automatically. Without this security, I would never consider so dangerous a path.

 

[The_Mage18]

My two cents, I have two 36GB Raptors set in RAID 0. I don't keep anything I care about keeping on them. I use them as a whipping boy drive. My swap file is on those drives (saves time with swapping due to faster drives and also separates the OS from the more frequently accessed swap file), bit torrents head to that drive, any video captures or edits are cached and recorded on those drives, Windows is set to use that drive as its temp file location, and my CD and DVD creation apps use it as their temp space.

I did this mainly to keep items that are frequently read, resized or created and destroyed off the main OS drive and the Data Storage drive. It also cuts down on fragmentation as the bulk of the writes are done on a set of drives that are not used for any other purpose. It has made a difference in mutiple apps running and in video capture/edititing.