Computer newbies: To Raid 0 or not to Raid 0?
To Raid 0 or not to Raid 0?
by DrSmith01 - 6/25/08 10:23 AMi'm building a new box. First one in yrs(for myself).
Intel 9300
xfx 9800gtx
asus p5n-t Deluxe
4gb memory
2x WD 500gb 16mb cache Raid Edition HDD's
now i'm really only gonna have this for surfing and 1 major game and dvd movie makeing
Should i Raid 0 these to 1tb or just partition the the first drive (os,games files) and use the second for storage/backup?
First time raid(ing) a system.
Thanks,
Doc
Depends - New!
by R. Proffitt
- 6/25/08 12:03 PM
In reply to: To Raid 0 or not to Raid 0? by DrSmith01
Depends - New!
by jwmorgan77 - 6/25/08 12:02 PM
In reply to: To Raid 0 or not to Raid 0? by DrSmith01
Hi,
It depends on what you want to accomplish. If you mirror your drives it will give you protection if one of the harddrives fail. However, it reduces harddrive performance slightly (usually not noticeable, however). When you stripe the drives it will increase the performance, but if either one dies you will lose all the data. Better have a good backup if you stripe the drive. If you don't need the raid for a specific purpose then it probably wouldn't be worth it. Todays harddrives are fast enought and reliable enough they work fine for most people.
Good Luck
Sam
(no spamming your site here.)
purpose...raid or no raid
by DrSmith01 - 6/25/08 12:47 PM In reply to: Depends - New! by R. Proffitt
Hi and thanks for your reply,
90% of the time i'll be playing an online game(The Matrix Online) with serious graphic requirements. If running it in Raid will give me better data transfer than that is the path i will go.
I am going to use an older 250gb IDE HDD for backup purposes
Doc
not to raid0
by guywayne - 6/27/08 6:44 PM In reply to: purpose...raid or no raid by DrSmith01Raiding your HDs together won't affect your performance online unless you have a 10gigabit connection 
Striping your data onto 2 disks greatly increases the risk of loss, because if either drive goes your data all goes. Mirroring your drives makes your data slightly more secure than a single drive, but wastes half of your space. So is it worth it? That depends how much your data is worth. You shouldn't rely on a backup drive in the same case to save you fram a data loss. A power surge or fire or flood or ... will take everything out together.
RAID0...............
by logger99 - 6/28/08 9:20 AM In reply to: To Raid 0 or not to Raid 0? by DrSmith01Used RAID 0 in thousands of builds and still use RAID 0 with no problems.......it's really fast (try using the Raptor drives for an out of this world experience). Use a third HD equivalent to your RAID drives ( 2x500 = 1TB drive) and back up the complete RAID setup.
Raid 0 or 1?
by keng612 - 6/28/08 10:58 AM In reply to: To Raid 0 or not to Raid 0? by DrSmith01The thought of having Raid 0 on a home PC sounds great and does have the advantage of slightly faster disk access, but I have had two scenerios in the last 3 years that really made me wish I had setup Raid 1 mirroring. Unless you keep vigilante backups, you really face the possibility of losing everything if one drive fails.
Mirroring, automatically duplicates the first hard drive and would prove to be a blessing if the other failed.
caution
by petelw - 6/28/08 6:36 PM In reply to: To Raid 0 or not to Raid 0? by DrSmith01There's validity in all the answers provided. I prefer the easier recovery option of Raid 1. Having owned a PC since the early 1980's I have had a few drive crashes. Though you can say it's rare, it does happen. Those that have not had the experience, consider yourself lucky. From my experience I would rather use Raid 1. You may say Raid 0 with backup is safe but you still have to rebuild before you can restore. Depending on how often you backup you may need to reinstall some software and still loose data. Raid 1 provides the minimal lost of data if any. You can call me the cautious one. As the saying goes, I'd rather be safe than sorry. Even though I use Raid 1, I still backup to an external drive on a weekly basis. In a nutshell, it all comes down to what's more important to you. For me it was fastest recovery.
Your Requirements
by khuss66 - 6/30/08 9:54 AM In reply to: To Raid 0 or not to Raid 0? by DrSmith01You stated you had two requirements: surfing, and playing.
With these two requirements, there is no need for data security. Who cares if one of your HDDs upchuck, get a new one, and reload windows and your game, and your back up in a few hours. Raid0 will provide the edge in performance you are looking for.
The performance gain he is looking for is load times, not smoothness of playing. I hope no one would ever consider getting faster HDDs to compensate for network lag lol.
Do it, you'll be happy.
Raid 0
by s5rf5ng - 7/5/08 2:09 PM In reply to: To Raid 0 or not to Raid 0? by DrSmith01I tied together two 80 Gig serial drives into a 190 virtual drive. I have insurance with Dell which provides free advice. They were not really a lot of help since several advisers seem to think this was a proceedure mostly used by government applications—satellite information ,weather simulations, large many screen displays, etc. So I had to figure it out pretty much on my own and had several false starts on what is basically not a very difficult process if you know exactly what to do. The year so far of this set up has resulted in no problems (Knock on wood). I use it to record HighDef TV over the air transmission. Any word processing documents I backup on other drives and disk. The TV shows are just free recordings so I do not much care if I were to loose them. After watching them I delete them anyway. However, I am not sure I notice much increased speed due to the Raid (the serial drives were pretty fast from the very start) , but do not have a good way of objectively measuring.
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