RAID 0 benefit

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Seanohue

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• Dec 25, 2005

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Right now I have the WD 200gb and the samsung 80gb drives in my sig. I was wondering if dumping the 80gb to get another WD2000JS for a RAID 0 will benefit me in load times.

 

fAlCoNNiAn

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• Dec 26, 2005

• #2

do you only have two sata connectors? if so, then yes, raid 0 will help you in load time and write time. plain and simple.

 

Elif Tymes

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• Dec 26, 2005

• #3

It will benefit you most in large files read/write.

I suggest a raptor if you wish to decrease your load times for games/booting up.

 

tom10167

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• Dec 27, 2005

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I jumped from 1 Raptor to a pair in RAID, the performance increase was very subtle, I agree with Elif.

 

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• Dec 27, 2005

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thanks for asking the question seanohue and the rest for answering. i'm going to run raid on my gaming pc.

 

russ_da_bus

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• Dec 29, 2005

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Before you create a stripe set just remember that RAID 0 doubles your chances of data loss.

 

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GonePostal

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• Dec 29, 2005

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I wouldn't use Raid 0 for anything really important. Always make backups fo that kind of stuff.