raiding

[ziddey]

hey. i just got an 80gb wdse on top of my existing 100gb wdse.

if i do a 10gb partition on the 100gb (which the os also resides on a separate partition), a run of sandra reports an avg or around 31mb/s for the 100gb and about 48mb/s or so on the 80gb. im guessing that the 80gb is faster because its not where the os resides?

thats still a sharp gain there already. in any event, when i do a softraid for 10gb+10gb (20gb total raid0), the result is 52mb/s, which isnt that much faster than 48 from just the second drive, but because of the raiding, the access times have doubled. what is going on? shouldnt it be a greater increase than this?

should i not trust sandra? im going to load bf1942 on it and see the load times in a bit

 

[ciscokid454]

you're just partitioning the drives right, and then using windows dynamic disks to create a software based raid 0 setup with different seperate drives?
I highly doubt you'll see any serious, significant or increase at all.
If one drive is already being used by windows, and you're using part of that drive in the raid 0 set..doubt it..
Doubt it..
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[ziddey]

thanks. also, people have mentioned that i should have one hdd on each controller to maximize speed. so i should have a hdd and an optical on each controller?

how the hell am i supposed to get the ide ribbon to go right??

thanks

 

[ciscokid454]

Yes, you'll get maximum performance out of the periphs by putting them each seperately on a single channel.
If you have sata onboard, put the hdd's on the sata channel.
Then have one cdrom on each channel seperately.
Or if you don't have sata, just get a ide pci controller ($10 on ebay) and put one on each channel.