Will I Benefit from RAID 0?

[Staccato9]

I am deciding whether I should buy a second hard drive to match my maxtor 120 gb 8 mb cache and put them in RAID 0. I would be using the onboard pata raid controller on my P4P800 deluxe. What performance difference would I see as opposed to just my single drive. I use my computer for gaming, coding, video editing, and photoshopping. Also if the second hard drive was a western digital 120 gb 8mb cache instead of a matching maxtor would it make a difference?

[pik4chu]

I am deciding whether I should buy a second hard drive to match my maxtor 120 gb 8 mb cache and put them in RAID 0. I would be using the onboard pata raid controller on my P4P800 deluxe. What performance difference would I see as opposed to just my single drive. I use my computer for gaming, coding, video editing, and photoshopping.
Raid 0 doesnt seem to make all that much difference, if you really want faster drivers get some 10k rpm raptors or go SCSI
*edit* check out this real world test a member did of SATA RAID, (I know your using PATA but the point is still the same http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=310250

Also if the second hard drive was a western digital 120 gb 8mb cache instead of a matching maxtor would it make a difference?
no it wont matter as long as they are same type, cache, size, speed, etc.

[stan03]

my single drive scores are around 50 mb/s and in RAID0 i get about 75-80

[theELVISCERATOR]

I am deciding whether I should buy a second hard drive to match my maxtor 120 gb 8 mb cache and put them in RAID 0. I would be using the onboard pata raid controller on my P4P800 deluxe. What performance difference would I see as opposed to just my single drive. I use my computer for gaming, coding, video editing, and photoshopping. Also if the second hard drive was a western digital 120 gb 8mb cache instead of a matching maxtor would it make a difference?


i would get the exact same drive if possible....mixing brands is known to cause issues due to slight differences in drive operations

[stan03]

ya when i got my second drive, i got the exact same model