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My present setup is an 8KNXP v1 (non-Ultra), P4 2.8C, 2gb RAM, and a 36gb
Raptor as my C: drive on the ICH5R controller. A 160 PATA is used as D:. I
have an opportunity to buy another 36gb Raptor at a good price, am thinking
about setting up a RAID0 on that controller, and would like some input on
the wisdom of this move.
I do photo editing in PhotoShop and a number of other disk-intensive tasks,
like moving large photo files around, and HD speed is important. When I
moved from a 160gb Maxtor PATA drive (6Y160P0 with 8mb buffer) to this
Raptor I was impressed with the performance improvement, but there will
always be room for more performance. I had a RAID0 setup on an old 440BX
board a couple of years ago and was impressed with its performance relative
to a single drive, though it did not match this single Raptor drive.
I'd like to hear from anyone, especially those who've experienced both, who
can give me an idea of the relative performance increase I can expect from
creating a RAID0 array from these drives. I'm not worried about the risk of
adding another variable to the reliability picture, as I am very well backed
up at all times and can recover quickly from a failed drive should one HD in
the array fail.
I'd also like tweak recommendations, like the stripe size, etc. I used 64mb
on my old RAID setup, which seemed to work well.
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My present setup is an 8KNXP v1 (non-Ultra), P4 2.8C, 2gb RAM, and a 36gb
Raptor as my C: drive on the ICH5R controller. A 160 PATA is used as D:. I
have an opportunity to buy another 36gb Raptor at a good price, am thinking
about setting up a RAID0 on that controller, and would like some input on
the wisdom of this move.
I do photo editing in PhotoShop and a number of other disk-intensive tasks,
like moving large photo files around, and HD speed is important. When I
moved from a 160gb Maxtor PATA drive (6Y160P0 with 8mb buffer) to this
Raptor I was impressed with the performance improvement, but there will
always be room for more performance. I had a RAID0 setup on an old 440BX
board a couple of years ago and was impressed with its performance relative
to a single drive, though it did not match this single Raptor drive.
I'd like to hear from anyone, especially those who've experienced both, who
can give me an idea of the relative performance increase I can expect from
creating a RAID0 array from these drives. I'm not worried about the risk of
adding another variable to the reliability picture, as I am very well backed
up at all times and can recover quickly from a failed drive should one HD in
the array fail.
I'd also like tweak recommendations, like the stripe size, etc. I used 64mb
on my old RAID setup, which seemed to work well.
--
To reply, nix "nix" in address.