i am using mine in raid 0 , but its a certian type of raid (intel matrix with intel controller With bios raid), and I had to use some major tricks to pull it off. many tricks, things they said were impossible, like 4t raid0 in 32bit system, i managed to accomplish in 2 arrays.
have had it set now for months and all the drives have 80% fill and i defrag/reorder, and all sorts of data shifting, and filling with no problems.
they were parking like crasy as singles, i tried some utilities to attempt to reduce that, i dont know if it did anything. i did not flash them, with anything other than attempts at messing with the ACM and Park excesses. I dont know if the intel raid driver, and the newer one, would be trying to insure that parking doesnt occur, but they dont seem to park anymore (excessivly).
But (and a big but) in my system i use it partitioned for the system drive AND the other stuff, and the other green raid0 is the paging disk, so the system is always herassing it for stupid stuff like logging and paging and all the stuff that goes on. and the power properties are set for no spindown.
the drive items i uase in raid 0 are always exact same drive, same batch same style. they have always worked like a team of horses stopping and going as that team. i am still scared to spindown (OS power manage) the 4t array, someday i will get so bold.
working them outside of the SYSTEM, minus intels driver control (having raid bios still), has also not been an issue, but outside of the system for cloning and backup , i dont sit there and wait for anything (to park) so i dont see any problems with that yet either. i also dont duel boot this sytem, or attempt to run other systems except for boot disks.
i took a really big GUESS , having used previously 2 X 1T raid ACS greens and never having any problems with the intel raid, even with spindowns, this was just 3 more tricks to get it to work. and the Heck of having somewhere to store 4T , like how was i going to do that. and store it long enough to finish full testing.
even for a "green" drive the TIME they have set for parking is Rediculous, that doesnt save power or the parts, it just re-parks and re-parks, they need to extend the time to a logical time .
Biggest Problems i was knowing would exist with raid0 would be:
is one drive going to park, or park for to long, then they dont wake up simeltaneous, and the driver is brainless, but i had been parking and spinning down teams for years without a problem on 2 different quality raid systems. Would i risk it with these Park-A-Thon drives?
are ANY drives going to get bad sectors and need a recovery , often bad sectors are sectioned out because of a system freak-up not because the drive is stuffed. I had tested the 2 1t greens and for the whole year there had not been "new bad sectors" If it has to fix one, then i am screwed, it is assume that the one drive wont react till this bad sector is re-written elsewhere, isnt that where a cache come in usefull?
Overclocking wildly can cause a system freak-up, having memory screwed up , overheats, bad power, all those thing could also get a drive/system to THINK there was a bad sector. sure its all done on the drive, but it seems to me that most bad sectors occur on Bad systems, impact, and bad drives, not out of the blue.
My drives are on the front with cool air intake, the temperatures in my system are thermal stabalised, all fans and everything try to keep the thermal conditions Similar (asumption that there is less thermal recalibrations of drives, and less expansion contraction of anything). The computer is where its drives wont be hit while spinning, causing head crashes and all.
The only times i have experienced the fault of having bad sectors be re-written , in any quantity, in many years of running raid0 in my systems was via the human, the software and OS or drivers screwing up , else the drive itself was totally finished/failing anyways. Would i risk it with these drives that Finish a bad sector issue before continuing?
( I just dont get it)
The 32 bit system will not access a full 4T array. With intel matrix (in the OS) magically i was able to create 2 seperated arrays without any speed issues , the intel BIOS now sees Both arrays as assembled Via the stuff written in the drive.
would I risk Buying drives that were to BIG for my 32bit system?
I am editing video with them besides , 2x1T greens and 2X2T ears (from & to) , its impossible ! but i was to CHEAP to get the right stuff. If i had the extra money to spend, it would have been a whole lot easier to get something like "enterprise" ,and try to cool them.
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