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question on which raid to use
- Thread starter D_Maniac
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From a theoretical standpoint, RAID0- striping- offers the highest performance. However, it sacrifices a lot in security, and modern hardware has already reached a point where striping together two high-performance drives offers little gain- I won't say none, but it's very hard to justify the extra price and risk.
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However, RAID-0, as measured by Storage Review, has some significant performance drawbacks. In seek dominated game loading, RAID-0 actually reduces performance compared to a single drive, as running RAID-0 increases the impact of rotational latency and throws off the buffer strategy of the drives. Gains in productivity (office/content creation) are typically less than 10%, often no larger than simply moving to a single physical disk that is twice as big.
Coupled with the increased chance of failure/data loss, increased cost, increased driver complexity, and mixed bag on desktop performance, RAID-0 isn't worth it for desktop power users and gamers.
If you multi task heavily, add independent spindles to service additional tasks. If you want better performance and you're using a 7200RPM drive, look to the WD740GD. If you've already got WD740GD, look to WD1500ADFD. Performance boost is bigger with none of the drawbacks of running RAID.
However, RAID-0, as measured by Storage Review, has some significant performance drawbacks. In seek dominated game loading, RAID-0 actually reduces performance compared to a single drive, as running RAID-0 increases the impact of rotational latency and throws off the buffer strategy of the drives. Gains in productivity (office/content creation) are typically less than 10%, often no larger than simply moving to a single physical disk that is twice as big.
Coupled with the increased chance of failure/data loss, increased cost, increased driver complexity, and mixed bag on desktop performance, RAID-0 isn't worth it for desktop power users and gamers.
If you multi task heavily, add independent spindles to service additional tasks. If you want better performance and you're using a 7200RPM drive, look to the WD740GD. If you've already got WD740GD, look to WD1500ADFD. Performance boost is bigger with none of the drawbacks of running RAID.