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    Question Raid 0 in Vista 32bit

    Hey Guys,

    I am currently running four WD3200 RE16 drives (Western Digital 320GB 16MB cache- Raid Edition) on XP pro 32bit in Raid 0... really quick and I have 1.2terrabytes of C: drive

    anyways I want to make the change over to vista ultimate 32bit for DX10...
    I have heard that you cant do raid 0 in vista, only raid 1... is this true?

    Also, is there anything to watch out for when changing over... (view my specs in my profile) cheers

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    Re: Raid 0 in Vista 32bit

    Quote Originally Posted by twicksisted View Post
    Hey Guys,

    I am currently running four WD3200 RE16 drives (Western Digital 320GB 16MB cache- Raid Edition) on XP pro 32bit in Raid 0... really quick and I have 1.2terrabytes of C: drive

    anyways I want to make the change over to vista ultimate 32bit for DX10...
    I have heard that you cant do raid 0 in vista, only raid 1... is this true?

    Also, is there anything to watch out for when changing over... (view my specs in my profile) cheers
    Pure nonsense, I was able to use Matrix RAID0 with Vista even without drivers, works flawlessly without any cravettes.
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    Re: Raid 0 in Vista 32bit

    Are you running software RAID ?

    If so does your motherboard support RAID 0 through Hardware ? Hardware RAID is much better than software RAID and I would recommend hardware RAID any day.


    I run Vista 64bit with RAID 5 (Hardware SATA RAID) it works perfectly

    I doubt that Vista will have a problem with RAID 0

    I found some information but I cannot post a URL yet - I will post it once I am up to 5 posts - LOL

    I am sure that you will need to wipe the drives clean first before start RAID on Vista as I doubt the RAID will be backward compatible

    Good luck

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    Re: Raid 0 in Vista 32bit

    aaah excellent news
    I have a rocketraid pci card but that is SATA1... on the other hand I have my P5K-E onboard raid SATAII which is pretty damn good

    this is what i currently get on XP with my setup on the onboard raid controller... even beats 4 raptors!!!




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    Re: Raid 0 in Vista 32bit

    This post means I am up to 5 - I will try the URL next

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    Re: Raid 0 in Vista 32bit

    http://www.msfn.org/board/Vista_soft...rt_t74554.html

    Have a read here there is some more information

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    Re: Raid 0 in Vista 32bit

    cheers for the link... yeah im definately not going to use software raid... im just not sure if using 4 drives on a SATAI pci raid card will be better than using them on a SATA2 raid controller thats on my board.

    It seems pretty good and had the 3GBps data bandwidth vs the older SATA1 interface on my rocketraid card..

    Usually i would say that onboard devices are generally crap but this board is pretty jacked and has seriously good sound & raid (by the tests ive done so far).

    What do you reckon... run them in SATA1 off a proper server hardware raid card... or off the onboard raid on my P5K-E (SataII) ?

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    Re: Raid 0 in Vista 32bit

    Does the server hardware card have cache ? If so then it might speed it up enough to overtake the onboard sata II stuff.

    I run my RAID config from SATA II on the board and it's pretty good ?
    Personally I think that as SATA II is newer and your drives support it - the chances are, that would be the best solution

    It's your call really - if you have time - try them both and see which one is fastest ?

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    Re: Raid 0 in Vista 32bit

    What you have to remember is there is 3 main RAID interfaces, there's pure Hardware RAID that does *all* RAID operations on an I/O chip. BIOS-RAID which is basically a glorified ATA controller with a fancy BIOS strapped on which uses drivers to do RAID operations. And Software RAID which is a purely normal ATA controller, and the Operating System does the RAID operations build into it's volume management subsystems.

    Most motherboards and cheap RAID controllers use BIOS RAID, i.e. Intel's Matrix RAID, HPT RocketRAID, etc. Which works fine for Vista as mentioned above.
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