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SATA RAID Controller Question

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videogamer323

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Which controller would give the better performance?
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=130411
or
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=130417

The second one has an XOR engine and i didnt know if this would allow a performance increase in RAID 0 arrays (for an extra $40). My final setup will hopefully be this

2x WD Raptors on RAID0 for windows, programs, games (onboard controller)
either 2x 120gig WD in RAID0, or 3x 120gig WD in RAID5 (1 of the above cards)
 
The XOR engine won't help in RAID 0 mode, that is only use for RAID 5 (to generate the parity bits for the parity drive).

As for RAID 0 performance, I can't comment since I'm not familiar with those controllers.
 
I would get the raid 5 setup instead of raid 0. The raid 5 will give you redunancy and only perform slightly less than raid 0 for day to day use.

as for raid 0, i recommend agaist it on any drive that will have lots of random reads like the drive and amount of apps are on. Raid 0 won't give that much of an increase in performance. The single raptor would probably perform even with it.
 
ok considering this setup:
2x WD 120gig drives (they are used for anime, movies and whatever kind of storage) RAID 0
this is on the addon card, speed is not a big deal...

2xWD 36.7gig in RAID 0
or
2xWD 74gig in RAID 0

which would be the better setup... would the command queuing on the 74gig drives be worth the price, these drives are going to have Windows XP Pro, Games 10+, and all my applications a good 50+...
 
Why do raid0 at all.
There is not that much speed improvement in real life if any.
I would make a 10 gig partion on the first drive for your os and swop file.
A 10-20 gig partion on the second drive for games.
Put the applications on the os drive and use the remaining room on the other drive for backups etc.
Or do the app/ backups the other way around.

Then put your music on one big drive and your films on the other or something similar.
That way if you loose a drive you only loose half your data.
Plus moveing the drives to a new mobo is a lot easier.

Luck........ :D
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