To RAID or Not to...

[travisj]

So I'm the lucky owner of two 74GB Raptors. I was thinking and wondering if RAID 0 will actually make that much of a performance difference? Or if I might be better off putting operating system & non-hard drive intensive programs on one hard drive, and hard drive intensive programs/cache on the other?

I've only seen a couple of tests done with RAID 0 on Raptor's but it seems like there isn't that much of a boost. It seems to me, although I've never seen anyone say this, that simply separating the programs like I described might be better. Or am I just wrong?

 

[folken]

It may not increase the overall transfer rate to much but it does make a difference on i/o intensive tasks.

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[z2895]

raid will make a big difference in disk benchmarks and video editing, but thats about it. i would stick to a single disk

you might find this article useful
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101&p=10

 

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[travisj]

Thanks, that was a useful article. I guess I'll keep my raptors as individual disks (less of a hassle this way anyways).