to RAID or not to Raid....that is the question

[SunSamurai]

I would strongly reccomend against large RAID0 volumes. I, myself would be overjoyed is someone would make a $50 10GB 15000RPM low access drive. RAID0 is not for storeing all your data. Its foryour OS, its applications and large files you are working on. Music etc need not apply.

 

[VideoQuasar]

.wav files can be very large aeternitas. Has anyone ever witness a 4 Raid 0 array before? A long time ago I think CPU mag built one.....of course I couldn't find the mag for the life of me.

 

[SunSamurai]

.wav is a container. A large audio file isnt going to get too much use out of RAID0. There is enough bandwidth in one drive to handle audio. A 4 drive RAID0 is best used with smaller drives. 120GB max. Depending on the controller and the drives, top speed and low speed are usually with'n 10MBps in excess of 100MBps.

 

[VideoQuasar]

cool...thanks....I think I know what your saying. The bottle neck then becomes the controller, makes sense.

 

[VTrider]

Another :thumbsup: for building a RAID 0 Array (for the right reasons ofcourse). Let me put my .02c in before all you anti-raid 0 nazis chime in.

First and foremost, I've been using RAID 0 arrays in my video editing systems for years now, and in my opinion it's worth every penny in terms of speed and performance. I'm a gamer too, and have also noticed that certian game maps load much, much, much faster on my video editing systems than non-RAID systems - so take that into account.

As for all you paranoid users out there screaming that your data is 2x likely to fail, start living life and enjoying a RAID 0 array. Everybody regardless of your hard drive configuration should have a fool-proof backup system in place, so guess it doesn't matter then...right?

There are way too many threads in the last few months babbling about how RAID 0 is going to ruin your life, destroy your data & is not worth it. I say go for it, atleast if you do and don't like it - you can post about it with some experience to back you up unlike many people posting about it that haven't even tried it.

 

[ribbon13]

If you goth the cash for a decent hardware controller and 4 fast drives, RAID5 has a good balance for data security and speed.

 

[Zebo]

Noise, heat, and price/performance is horrendous. In a word NOFUGGINWAY. (although raid 1 has some attraction)

Want to blow cash, get a real video card or montior, you'll see real benefit there you can appreciate every day.

 

[ribbon13]

complaints about hard drive heat in the same thread suggesting a 'real' video card. come up now. a moden GPU puts out tons more heat than any hard drive.

Want to spend cash one something that makes you happy? Take you wife out to dinner.

 

[VideoQuasar]

I just finished installing my 4 hard drives in my Lian Li PC-V1000. I have the drives staggerd and a 120mm fan is blowing across them. I also just finished installing a NV Silencer 5 on my eVGA 6800 GT in hopes to get it over 1050/390 that I had in my other system I removed it from. It went up to 89c like that with the stock HS. That was after I ran three straight runs of 3Dmark 05 with full eye candy. I'm thinking and hoping I have cooled it down abit with my new set up. I love benchie's. Now my Raid set up I still quander over.....a 2 x 2 or all 4 for the experience. Gonna overclock my chester 3000 so I'm still leary on possibly junking the array (or arrays).

 

[SunSamurai]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
If you goth the cash for a decent hardware controller and 4 fast drives, RAID5 has a good balance for data security and speed.

RAID isnt about data security. Its about uptime.

Originally posted by: Zebo
Noise, heat, and price/performance is horrendous. In a word NOFUGGINWAY. (although raid 1 has some attraction)

Want to blow cash, get a real video card or montior, you'll see real benefit there you can appreciate every day.

$250 for a 4 drive array isnt so bad. Slap a fan infront of the drives and they run cool. Been do'n it for 2 drives for years.They arnt even warm.

 

[ribbon13]

RAID with Hot-Swap is about uptime

I'd say a RAID-5 with drives with active cooling is more about data security. Most active HDD coolers on the market require you to at least pull the side off. Which is a pain in the ass.

 

[humble71]

VideoQuasar, seeing that you're going to overclock, the possibility of 4 hd in RAID 0 won't be possible since S-ATA ports 1 and 2 aren't locked on the MSI K8N Neo2.

I'm probably too late to warn you but it's worth a try. I stumbled onto this thread cuz I was contemplating whether to continue running RAID 0 or not.