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What would be the best RAID setup or should I stay with ATA100?
What would be the best RAID setup or should I stay with ATA100?
Originally posted by MiseryQ
Do you have the motherboard yet?!?
If not Here something to try... Get and install two harddrives... Go into "disk managment" convert them to dynamic disks, and then Use disk managment again to "span" the two drives... This give you a software based raid drive... It's VERY close to a hardware based raid system and is more configurable, is that a word?!?...
I had this set up in Win2k and in the beta versions of Xp... Then I converted my Ultra100 to a Fastrack100... The drives bench the same and the CPU usage is no different...
The only problem with dynamic disks is that no other OS can read them... If you have NTFS it doesn't matter anyway...
Also try doing this in Fat32 if it'll let you, I don't remember. Fat32 raid drives perform better that there NTFS counterparts...
ooops... I'm babbling...
Originally posted by JJB6486
If you have two drives of the same type, i sould recomend striping them together. You get faster read/write speeds
JJB6486
Originally posted by MiseryQ
Striping will set the drives up for speed... Half the info is written/read to each drive at the same time... Mirroring copies the entire file to each drive, if one drive dies you'll have to install another one and rebuild the array, mirroring with scsi is different if one drives dies the infos still available...
Mirror plus stripping needs 4 drives, 2 for striping, 2 for mirroring... Since it's IDE raid go with stripping... If you want all out speed get 4 drives then stripe them, that's when raid really starts kicking ass...
Originally posted by DNA of FLASH
I'm using SOYO DRAGON PLUS with RAID support and you can actualy specify what kind of RAID stripping you want, it has option for:
- Server (small file read/write)
- Audio/Video (large file read/write)
- Desktop (small & lard file read/write)
with my computer set to audio/video (that is what I do) stripping it starts-up WinXP in 18-20 seconds (Bootvis boot timing test)