New to Raid, have a few questions.

[taverasme]

Hi all,

Thanks for looking I recently built my first ever PC and was looking online at a few things I could add to speed up my PC even more....

One that struck me was Raid0 with SSD drives for awesome windows boot times and game loading.
I play FFXI and run Windows Vista Ultimate, so the drives would have to be rather large..

First Question :

My mobo is this : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138128

It has an onboard raid controller, would a separate raid card offer better performance?
I was looking at this card : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132008

Second question :
Would two of these : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820183202
In a raid 0 configuration be significantly faster than a single SSD?
Would they be significantly faster than a single 7200rpm hard drive?
My current hard drive is : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136075


Thanks for your time!

 

[xxjudgmentxx]

your motherboard's onboard RAID would do a better job than that crap RAID card (it's really just a SATA controller that supports RAID which is the same thing that your chipset does).

If you want to get better performance than your chipset RAID you'd be looking for something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151031 (expensive, ain't it?)

two ssd's way faster than one? probably not that much.

two faster than a single HDD...hell yes.

 

[chunkymonster]

The onboard RAID controller with the SB750 chipset would be better than that Rosewill RAID card.

Rather than 2-32GB SSD's (2 x $130each = $260/64GB) in RAID0, why not get 4-40GB SATA2 drives (4 x $36each = $144/160GB) and set them up in RAID0? Save half the cash, get 2.5x the amount of space, and still get fast disk performance. Albeit 4 RAID0 SATA2 drives won't be quite as fast as 2 RAID0 SSD's but for the price/performance and 2.5x the capacity, it's a better deal.

Just my $.02.

Good luck!

 

[Hovaucf]

First off that Rosewill is an hba not a raid card, this is a raid card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118093.

RAID 0 is always faster than a single drive even if it only has 2 drives, and dont let people tell you it wont be much faster they really have no clue.

Also stick to 3Ware, Adaptec, or LSI for raid cards the rest have poor performance, RAID support, or simply bad products.

 

[xxjudgmentxx]

First off that Rosewill is an hba not a raid card, this is a raid card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118093.

RAID 0 is always faster than a single drive even if it only has 2 drives, and dont let people tell you it wont be much faster they really have no clue.

Also stick to 3Ware, Adaptec, or LSI for raid cards the rest have poor performance, RAID support, or simply bad products.

Areca and HighPoint make good cards as well (very good performance).

Almost all the LSI RAID cards you linked to don't really help the OP as they are SCSI or SAS controller cards (not to mention the ones that actually had SATA got poor reviews)....I don't think he has hundreds of dollars set aside for SCSI enterprise drives...

 

[Hovaucf]

Most of those cards are SAS/SATA meaning they work with SATA drives..., but I was only listing it to show a real raid card. The one he listed is an HBA which is not a RAID card. Areca and HighPoint don't make that good of quality cards in comparison to adaptec, lsi, or 3Ware. If the OP is buying SSD drives then he will want a good RAID card not some cheap imitation.

 

[taverasme]

Hey guys thanks for the input!
Interesting thought on the multiple disk drives...

I'm really considering going raid0 with multiple 7200rpm WD or Seagate drives..

Is the hard drive I originally posted : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136075

A good drive to get a raid configuration with? Or should I get a higher rpm drive... ???

Thanks!