Raid

[Onichan]

About two years ago I got two http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148230 in a raid 0 and did notice a significant performance difference then my old hard drive. Now its time for a new computer and was wondering if i bought two more and setup all four in raid 0 would it give better performance?

 

[marcellis22]

RAID 0 or 1 can only use two drives... Four drives in a RAID 5 configuration would give you great fail-over protection, RAID 0 gives you none, one drive fails and all you have is thin air...

 

[roadrunner197069]

Raid 0 can use any amount of drives. Raid 0 is risky, but not if you have backups, which you should. Raid 0 is the performance king. I am running 4 30G OCZ core V2 SSDs in raid 0 with 507MB/s reads.

 

[marcellis22]

Correct(ed)...thanks

 

[mford66215]

In my opinion, the increased chance of any glitch in the drives causing a catastrophic failure of the partition isn't worth the performance difference between 2 drive raid 0 and >2 drive raid 0. Each drive you add increases the number of things that can go wrong.

 

[Onichan]

I know there is chance with loosing all my data, but I do backup important data every week or so which is why im not too worried about data lost it would only take half a day to reinstall everything. So far I haven't had a problem so that's why I was going to stick with raid 0. I just wanted to know if I would see any performance gain not just bench marks. Thanks for the warning though.

 

[boulard83]

Yeah road, your RAID setup read is AWESOME ! my 2x250g 16mb cache do like 180mb/s read i think, ill check back as soon as im home.

 

[Guest]

ATM i don't like SSDs, i've frankly had too many problems with my ocz core series one

I'm going to switch back to a normal hdd once I have the money and then sell my SSD for the cheap