Anyone use RAID 0 at home ?
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Originally Posted by Fuchsrohre
DrEvil, so do you run your web browser and email on the separate "Games/Apps" drive ?
I have two PCs, one for Apps/web/email and one for gaming.
Apps PC:
1x O/S (SATA)
1x Apps / Games / data (SATA)
Gaming PC:
1x O/S (SATA - my OS Raptor blew up recently)
1x Games (Raptor)
1x Data (SATA)
The Apps PC could do with a third drive for data (and a fourth to mirror it).
My gaming PC's drives remain unmirrored because I had some negative results with h/w RAID1 performance wise - could have been the h/w RAID1 implementation on the A8V though - haven't tried on the A8N.
TBH with the Apps I use, putting them on a separate drive isn't that worth while, but for the games I play I've seen a big improvement in level load times - part of this is the 10Krpm Raptor at work though. But before the raptor I had two 'normal' SATA drives and splitting the OS and Game worked a treat for as a performance boost on load times.
There are others on these forums better placed to discuss the merits (or lack there -) of applications on a second drive - as I said, I've not found any real performance benefit for the tasks I do on the PC.
Having a data drive is great though, as you don't loose it all when you reinstall Windows, I guess the other option there is a partition though.
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The only advantage to having apps on seperate drive that I've seen is if you are using the swap file a lot whilst at the same time the app is trying to read data from (or write to) the disc.
With a large chunk of memory in the pc (i.e. 2gb or more - depending on what you are doing) then I've not personally seen any advantage to putting apps on seperate drive..
With a large chunk of memory in the pc (i.e. 2gb or more - depending on what you are doing) then I've not personally seen any advantage to putting apps on seperate drive..
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Originally Posted by Fuchsrohre
Now there's a man with style. I like it, although it sounds a little power hungry 
May I ask which RAID controller you use ? I'd like something that doesn't hog the CPU
May I ask which RAID controller you use ? I'd like something that doesn't hog the CPU
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Personally I wouldnt go near a raid 0 setup ever again. Too much of a PITA when a disk dies.
Most disks these days do have amazing numbers quoted as their MTBF's but that is only an estimate and hard drives DO fail whether its 4 hours or 40,000, you wont know until your in a whole world of hurt... so backup anything of importance if you go this route.
FWIW, I purchased myself a raptor 74gb and use it for my XP install and all my programs (office, games, virus scanners, etc) and it is still blazingly fast.
Most disks these days do have amazing numbers quoted as their MTBF's but that is only an estimate and hard drives DO fail whether its 4 hours or 40,000, you wont know until your in a whole world of hurt... so backup anything of importance if you go this route.
FWIW, I purchased myself a raptor 74gb and use it for my XP install and all my programs (office, games, virus scanners, etc) and it is still blazingly fast.
Last edited by swaussie; Jan 4, 2006 at 09:45 PM.
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