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icantfindone said:I have a 3 disk raid0 array with the 250gb 7200.10, and it runs great for me. I cant imagine there being a big performance difference between the hitachi and the seagates, but I would guarantee that 3 disks > 2 disks.
Do the latter. Unless you're doing some major video editing or other large file usage that will benefit from the increased STR of a third drive, don't bother with more than 2 drives for RAID0.wyemarn said:Another dilemma guys.
Currently I have a 7200.10 250GB. Should I get 2 more 7200.10 250GB and set up a 3 drive RAID0 or just get two Hitachi 320GBs and use the 7200 as storage drive?
If I was you I would get two more 7200.10 and do MATRIX Raid 0 plus Raid 5... if you have the ICH8R chipset that is... if you don't, then not sure what to tell ya...wyemarn said:Another dilemma guys.
Currently I have a 7200.10 250GB. Should I get 2 more 7200.10 250GB and set up a 3 drive RAID0 or just get two Hitachi 320GBs and use the 7200 as storage drive?
I think you have it backwards...wyemarn said:I just got myself 2 Hitachi drives. Still havent set them up but will be looking foward to do that. I will be doing matrix raid (250GB+250GB RAID0) and the remaining 50GB from each drive for RAID1. From RAID0 volume, I will set the first partition for Windows, 2nd for applications and the rest for storage. Any advice or comments on this?
g0dM@n said:I think you have it backwards...
I normally set the windows, programs, games partition to 30gb (unless you have TONs of games, then make it a little bigger)... and that's your raid0.
Then, the raid1 will be the remaining space left over...
g0dM@n said:Why a Storage1 and a Storage2? Why not just a BIG storage partition?
It's all pretty much how you want to set it up... if you're going to be working with large files in storage on the raid0 volume, you may want to use the 128kb stripe... I use 16k b/c I just use windows on my raid0 volume... I actually thought about using even lower striping, but I wasn't sure if I should.
Anyone have recommendations on striping size?
large stripe sizes would be awesome for bigger files like music and especially videos... smaller stripe sizes are good for programs and possibly windows...wyemarn said:I might combine them. Yeah, I also wonder what would be the best stripe size. Large stripe size would be waste and small ones would lower down performance.