Raid-0 current drives or Faster single?

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oshia86

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Been a long time since I've added new hardware to my machine (long for me anyway). Have been getting my modding fix with the car for the past year or so. Anyway, I am looking on upgrading the HD portion of the computer. Current drives are listed in sig, consisting of two WD 320gb (single platter) drives and a wd 500gb. I am debating on either putting the two current wd320gb drives in a raid-0 config, which I prefer, assuming they will be the fastest option. The other choice would be to go with something like a larger single drive such as a Samsung F3. For the two drives in Raid-0, I am in need of a good cheap hardware controller, which is a piece of hardware I really don't have much knowledge about.

So I am stuck at either finding a cheap hardware controller or if the cost it to great then jumping to a single larger drive. What are your thoughts/opinions? Can anyone recommend a controller making these two drives worth staying with?
 
If you're only looking for RAID 0 (striping) you can use the onboard RAID system on your motherboard, with little or no performance penalty.

Dustin
 
dustNbone said:
If you're only looking for RAID 0 (striping) you can use the onboard RAID system on your motherboard, with little or no performance penalty.

Dustin
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This actually brings up another question. With this solution I would need to run these as a dynamic disk right? I'm currently still using the beta for Windows 7 and was gonna get my own copy when I get the hard drive situation worked out. Doesn't only the Ultimate versions support booting from a raid-0 config? Which in turn costs me more than going to a home premium copy. And to add to my raid noobness, will I need to run dynamic disks even with a hardware controller?

Edit: Just checked on the board, no onboard raid. Still looking for a good recommendation for a hardware controller or if I am gonna be best going another route.
 
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oshia86 said:
This actually brings up another question. With this solution I would need to run these as a dynamic disk right? I'm currently still using the beta for Windows 7 and was gonna get my own copy when I get the hard drive situation worked out. Doesn't only the Ultimate versions support booting from a raid-0 config? Which in turn costs me more than going to a home premium copy. And to add to my raid noobness, will I need to run dynamic disks even with a hardware controller?
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Dude, you got it wrong: All versions of Windows 7 can boot from a RAID 0 config. And no, you don't have to run dynamic disks.

oshia86 said:
Two I've found so far. Feel kinda iffy on them though.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132008
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124027
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Don't bother with those. Those cheapies tends to use the same slow Silicon Image chip. Try to stick with controllers made by Highpoint, 3Ware, Adaptec, Areca, or LSI.
 
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