You read the article...Originally posted by: rarebear
I just read the Artical at ExtremeTech and it says you should NOT use 0 Raid for a OS
Other than one of two drives are more likely to fail than one whats the down side???????
Final Thoughts: Superb Single Drive Performance
The Western Digital Caviar Black is one of the best 7,200RPM drives you can get, if you want to run one large, single hard drive. It's not well-suited for RAID, but then, you really wouldn't want to run a desktop drive as a RAID 0 drive if you can avoid it. It should be a superb performer in typical consumer environments.
Originally posted by: taltamir
i was just trying to help some guy who reset his cmos, which broke his raid1 array, thing is, now the windows driver is acting up and he has to reinstall windows to get it to boot.
some funky things can happen with raid on os drive, but as idoncare said, its doable if you know the risks and take precautions.
Originally posted by: rarebear
Extremetech.com Article
Final Thoughts: Superb Single Drive Performance
The Western Digital Caviar Black is one of the best 7,200RPM drives you can get, if you want to run one large, single hard drive. It's not well-suited for RAID, but then, you really wouldn't want to run a desktop drive as a RAID 0 drive if you can avoid it. It should be a superb performer in typical consumer environments.
Originally posted by: Idontcare
Originally posted by: taltamir
i was just trying to help some guy who reset his cmos, which broke his raid1 array, thing is, now the windows driver is acting up and he has to reinstall windows to get it to boot.
some funky things can happen with raid on os drive, but as idoncare said, its doable if you know the risks and take precautions.
Did the guy have a backup of his raid1 array?
Originally posted by: sgrinavi
I don't backup my OS/Programs drives... Just as easy to reinstall. Start nice and clean.
Originally posted by: taltamir
there are PARTS of the OS drive you usually want to... your emails, your bookmarks, some programs app data (and you should have relocated your documents folder to another partition or drive... and backed it up)
Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Originally posted by: rarebear
Extremetech.com Article
Final Thoughts: Superb Single Drive Performance
The Western Digital Caviar Black is one of the best 7,200RPM drives you can get, if you want to run one large, single hard drive. It's not well-suited for RAID, but then, you really wouldn't want to run a desktop drive as a RAID 0 drive if you can avoid it. It should be a superb performer in typical consumer environments.
I don't think he's saying not to run the OS on a RAID 0, I think he's saying a RAID 0 environment is better suited with enterprise level drives.
Other than that, this particular drive's RAID 0 benchmark performance isn't much better than running a single drive, and sometime worse; because either the drive's embedded controller, firmware or a combination is choking it for some reason.