Should I bother with Raid 0

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Currently running, 2x 250gb wd's and 2x750 samsungs all as jbod, Vista is installed on the first of the 250's.

Now I think I need to reinstall windows, its having issues with crashing sometimes, and some programs have stopped working, done a few system restores from restore points and its still broke, so I might reinstall windows

Is it worth making a raid0 array from the 2x250's and would it give me a decent boost in performance over just running them as jbod?
 
I wouldn't try RAID 0 unless your system is rock solid to begin with, adding RAID 0 into an unstable system is just asking for more problems...

sneeker said:
Currently running, 2x 250gb wd's and 2x750 samsungs all as jbod, Vista is installed on the first of the 250's.

Now I think I need to reinstall windows, its having issues with crashing sometimes, and some programs have stopped working, done a few system restores from restore points and its still broke, so I might reinstall windows

Is it worth making a raid0 array from the 2x250's and would it give me a decent boost in performance over just running them as jbod?
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RAID 0 is JABOD (the more accurate nomenclature, if you must know - Just A Bunch Of Disks/Drives). "RAID 0" isn't true RAID, it never has been, it's just drive spanning, nothing more.

It can help in some aspects with performance, but in reality more often than not it's a complete waste of time that isn't worth the time put into it. Read this article and perhaps you might see the reasoning behind the non-importance of "RAID" 0:

http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=29

Written by a guy that makes his living selling high end boutique PCs... and he's very knowledgeable on the subject. An excellent read.
 
Uh.... Traditionally JBOD concats disks one behind the other to create a volumn, where as RAID0 "stripes" the data between 2 or more disks as you write, yes? What makes JBOD really different is that you can generally pull a drive out of a JBOD and pull the data off just fine - you can't do that with RAID0.

Oh, and risks of data loss mean nothing if you have backups (you DO have backups, yes?), risk of downtime on the other hand...
 
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