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raid 0 worth it?

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Dahz

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i have 2 identical 60 gig hard drives, and a 160 gig drive. is it worth the hassal of setting up the 2 60 gig drives into a raid array?

the two 60 gigs would be used for primary boot drive, and for games etc. with the 160 gig being used as data backup.

currently i just have them all set up individually using partitions and such.
 
I don't particularly think so. Played with RAID0 back in the day when it was new to ATA, been disappointed ever since. The risk of data loss alone should nuke the idea for all but contiguous tasks like video editing (and then only with some serious, regular backup solutions). Games have enough random seek patterns to make RAID0 a tossup with a single drive. I've only got a 2.26GHz P4 backed up by an older Seagate 15k.2, yet I'm still the first one in, even before these uber-l337 kids with A64s and RAID0 raptors.
 
anyone else have an opinion?

honestly im more interested in trying it because i havnt done it before and i have the means avalible to do it.

any performance increase woudl simply be a bonus.

i wont be doing anything in regards to hardware untill im done reassembling my case(went and painted the case front)
 
I've been curious about all this hype surrounding RAID 0 so I decided to give it a try. Things definetly feel a bit peppier, windows boots up in a snap...but i'm not very impressed with the numbers some benchamrks are giving me. I put each drive on it's own channel and that definetly increased the numbers, but not by a whole lot. I've got two 80GB drives and one 160GB drive, and I can't tell the difference in load times between loading off the RAID array or the 160GB drive, it seems about the same to me.

If you are willig to experiment and reformat and reinstall windows and all that, i'd say go for it. If you're the type that doesn't want to go through that hassle then I'd just leave your config how it is.
 
i jut upgraded from 4 120gigs in raid 0 to 4 160 gigs in raid 0, I havent had any trouble with data, and ive used it as a gaming rig, (its a dule P3, 1ghz, 1.5gigs pc 133, geforce 3 with win 2k pro ) i havent had anny issues playing cod, MoH, quake....

but thats just my experience, if i where you, if you can fit the drives in your pc as is, then go for it, but if you cant then go for the raid and see how you like it, worce comes to worce all you have to do is reinstal windows and your games (if your keeping most everything on the bigger drive
good luck
 
i'm interested in putting 2 SATA 120gig hard drives together in a Raid 0 array..but i'm rather put off my the data loss...and the speed gain. They're already SATA so they'll be pretty quick..i'm just not sure if the array would be that wise of a choice.

Considering i could use that extra slot for a 12x DVD burner :-D
 
I always found it a benefit
but my primary use was swapfile use*
and you can do that without RAID0
http://www.storagereview.com/php/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=MultiplePagefiles

*(large tif files, photoshop and full history)

your games load times will improve, but like Snugglebear pointed out
without a specific ap to benefit a dual channel RAID on mobo IDE array typically isnt the performance bottleneck

but you already answered your own question
experience :p
 
It doesn't make sense to go RAID unless you have a hardware-based solution, and those are expensive.

Even with the "raid support" on most motherboards these days your CPU is still doing all the work so your cpu utilization is higher when you use RAID.

And two disks striped is a disaster waiting to happen.. if either drive fails you lose the data on both.
 
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