Raid 1 Vs. ATA

[NicHB]

Can anyone tell me if I will see much of an increase in speed if I change from a singe HD (WD 80gig 8mb buffer) to 2 identical HDs in a raid 1 configuration?
sys is asus A7V8X with a 2100 athlon.

 

[HammerBot]

RAID1 is slightly faster on read than a single harddrive. Writes has no speed improvement. It may even be a bit slower. You should check the RAID faq in the Harddisk forum.

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[Col_Kiwi]

Raid1 you don't see much of any speed difference.

For a major speed increase get two drives in Raid0.

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[Hadi]

raid 1 is like a backup system.
writing the same thing to 2 harddisks.
writing could be a little slower and the reading (in general not sure about A7V8x) is much faster because of the ability of reading from 2 drives in the same time.
for real boost in writing and reading use raid 0 though it's a little risky because if you lose 1 HDD then the data on the other one is useless.
raid 0 works by dividing the data to all HDDs.
in theory raid 0 is 2(for 2 HDDs) times faster in reading and writing.
for best result use same HDDs especially same size. because the raid system will format them as the smallest so if you have a 30GB & 40GB then you will have:
raid 1 => 30GB (*2) same info on both HDDs
raid 0 => 60GB

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