Shaithis, is it loud?
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Shaithis, is it loud?
The only thing at all noisy with it is one of the doors on the raid bay rattles when I turn the PC on, once i touch it, it stops ;)
It was a very cheap 3 x 5.25" > 4 x 2.5" SATA hot-swap bay converter though which I purchased at least 2 years ago. I am sure there are better available now though (and that's if you even feel the need to use one), the rattle on mine just adds character :innocent:
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the rattle on mine just adds character
I have run xp for years on a single drive setup, last year moved to nvidia NF4 raidx0 x2 drives, January intel matrux raid0 x2 & March matrix raid 0 x4. I can tell you now that in day to day operations the os runs with a far better feel, smoothness & response with my current setup.
For me, a RAID is more about resilience and lack of downtime, then it is about saving time. For me the extra performance boost is a very nice extra :)
More so then virtually every other piece of hardware, hard drives develop faults and die. In the last 2 years I have had 3 drives (out of 15) die, 2 of those were part of my RAID array and if I hadn't been RAIDed I would be back to kicking myself for not having an up-to-date backup.
While some people trust their backups, I do not.......I am a bit sloppy with doing them and have had restores fail before. Anything that gives me breathing space before a restore, is a god-send to me :)
The 4 port one shaithis has looks tasty indeed :P
I don't use RAID for it's redundancy, guess you can call it AID :P
I wonder if a maze 4 waterblock would fit on that Areca :laugh:
Yes it is crisper and sharper (similar to the general feeling you get using an old HyperThreading P4 IMO), but it doesn't actually do much unless you give them a specific use. I'll grant you it's free speed (4x80gb instead of 1x320gb), but only if you use a separate drive for data, or use 0+1 or 5.
If I'm honest - my original RAID array (2x40gb 7,200rpm WDs) was built having looked at reviews which never give a clear indication of where the benefits and pitfalls were - you see higher numbers, and so that's the path you go down (well I did!). It was a mistake born through naivety, but the drives are still in use today, and the 36gb Raptors which replaced them are at least in a role where they shine now.
I was in a bit of a hurry earlier, so regarding the 10% CPU usage, that's not correct - I was actually playing with DVDLab Pro on another disk at the time, so the CPU usage won't be accurate. It's normally around 6% or so (thinking back to an old HDTach benchmark), which I guess is about right for a half-decent software RAID controller. I don't think I could justify moving to a hardware one myself, but I have been tempted a few times. Simple RAID0 with multicore CPUs doesn't really warrant a dedicated RAID card.
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For me, a RAID is more about resilience and lack of downtime, then it is about saving time. For me the extra performance boost is a very nice extra
Touch wood i've only ever had 1 hd failure over the years although i thought i'd come close the other week when the sata support on the data connection came off the drive with the data cable when i unplugged it. It just left the bare metal plug probes. Thought the drive was a gonner but suprisingly i managed to push the lead back on & it worked, (it's going in the wife's , it's not opened up so much:lol:)
:lol: her pc :surprised::lol: :rolleyes:
http://www.thebroadbandchannel.com/t...20RAID%200.png
Is this good or bad for two 74Gb raptors in RAID 0?
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Is this good or bad for two 74Gb raptors in RAID 0?
Yeah, I noticed that.
Why would that be then? That Intel raid setup so much faster than the VIA one I have?
Well there can be differences between the raid implementation intel, via , nvidia etc., plus user generated factors like stripe size etc.,Quote:
Why would that be then? That Intel raid setup so much faster than the VIA one I have?
I'm sure gav will be able to pinpoint the reason:)