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    Re: Basic RAID question

    Quote Originally Posted by pauldarkside View Post
    It seems to me that IMR, or practically any other software RAID solution for that matter, is ideally suited to those seeking performance and redundancy on a budget. Like partitions, IMR will suffer when accessing data on both parts at the same time.
    Does anyone have performance stats comparing the following:

    a) Copying between two drives

    b) Setting up two RAID 0 using a pair of drives & copying from one RAID to the other?

    That'd be useful to give an idea of the worst case performance loss as a result of configuring the drives in this way.

    I'm considering RAIDing the drives in my next system & in the past have used a pair of drives, one for OS & scratch space, one for data. Thus I'm often doing disk intensive stuff involving shifting data between drives.

    I'm wondering now, if I go with a pair of drives configured to give me a RAID 0 for pagefile & scratch and a RAID 1 for OS & data, what performance loss I'll see for cross RAID transfers. Can't seem to find this info anywhere.

    FWIW If I go with this option I'll later add another pair of drives with a further RAID 0/RAID 1 split for scratch / data back ups, which will eliminate most of those losses.

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    Re: Basic RAID question

    Quote Originally Posted by master811 View Post
    I saw somewhere they did a comparison of a separate Raid 0 and Raid 1with the IM Raid 0/Raid1 and the performance difference was pretty much negligible.

    http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1...d/index.x?pg=1

    have a look through there, they basically conclude that there is no downside to using IM raid. The only problem you will have is if you try accessing data from both Raid 0 and 1 on the IM arrays at the same time, as the disk heads will have to access both at the same time, so copying data from raid 0 to 1 or vice versa etc, but generally I think the benefits would outweigh the problems. (mentioned here http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.a...tno=206&pgno=1 )
    This is usefull, but I would comment that these reports are over 2 years old, and the later marks of the Intel ICHnR controller have got faster and the software better. Also in the first artical they created the RAID 1 first, and the RAID 0 second. The objective of RAID 0 is speed/performance, and they lost a lot of this potential by creating the RAID 0 second, and therefore on the slower inner cylinders. Had they created the RAID 0 first, there would have been a marked improvement methinks.
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    Re: Basic RAID question

    You may also wish to have a quick read of this if you haven't already. http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=115697

    Funnily enough, whilst doing abit of research I came across the intel raid matrix thingy yesterday.
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    Re: Basic RAID question

    Quote Originally Posted by EtheAv8r View Post
    Also in the first artical they created the RAID 1 first, and the RAID 0 second. The objective of RAID 0 is speed/performance, and they lost a lot of this potential by creating the RAID 0 second, and therefore on the slower inner cylinders. Had they created the RAID 0 first, there would have been a marked improvement methinks.
    According to the second page they used two configs for testing IMRAID; the first had RAID 1 first which they used to provide the RAID 1 stats only; the second had RAID 0 first & again was used to supply only the RAID 0 stats.

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    Re: Basic RAID question

    Quote Originally Posted by mroz View Post
    According to the second page they used two configs for testing IMRAID; the first had RAID 1 first which they used to provide the RAID 1 stats only; the second had RAID 0 first & again was used to supply only the RAID 0 stats.
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