Your storage setup.

[JoT]

I'm curious how everyone gets configured their storage array, and I just recently got poll-posting powers

I am asking you guys about your Operating System drives on your main rig, not your drive with your MP3s on it, not your drive with your games on it, just the drive that has your operating system and programs you need to be fast on it. I am not asking about drives that just sit around as storage.

If you have a parallel hard drive set up with a CD drive or something other than another hard drive, please select Single and its cache. I think all the other options are self-explanatory.

I have tried to get every possible configuration listed as an option, I cannot add more than 10 options, so if your setup is not the list, just say so in a post, and do not vote. I know that I did not list SCSI, but I ran out of options and I know not a lot of people use it.

Any questions? No? Good

 

[shadowdr]

I actually have two pata raid0 array's one for the OS and one with programs so I can have four chanels of bandwidth at once.

 

[attack]

also keep in mind these results are probably gonna be skewed toward high end/raid setups since a lot of people with single drives only venture here when they need another drive.

I run 2x40gb 7200 2mb drives raid 0

 

[Xaotic]

Mine's a bit different. It's varied between 10K and 15K drives in either RAID-1 or singles. Currently, it's a single 8MB 15K for the lower disk access times and likely to stay that way. High IO and storage arrays are on separate controllers.

 

[NoteUser]

Take a look

 

[tom10167]

My Raptor will be here in about 30 hours, and it's going to be my primary drive, with an 80gig Barracuda 4 as a backup drive. I voted single 74 gig, what's parallel drives?

 

[Xaotic]

They're standard Parallel ATA/IDE(PATA) drives.

 

[PYROMANIAC]

dont leave us large storage jbod guys out =/
down with raid 0 !!

 

[JoT]

Sorry buddy, I'm asking for speed

 

[NoteUser]

This is my first RAID. I happen to pick RAID 0 for speed and I wanted to do something different.

Sorry that a newbie Raider like myself happen to gain knowleadge It took me long enough on my own to findout I needed at least BIOS 1011 and a few downloads etc.

 

[hafa]

BAH! SCSI discrimination!

U320 SCSI, 15,000 rpm. Can't beat it.

Am I isolated or elitist? I just can't decide...

 

[bchur83]

Raid0 2x Maxtor 80GB 8MB Cache PATA, 32kb Stripe, 4kb cluster

 

[loudblaster]

2x Maxtor 200GB 8MB cache PATA W/SATA adapter raid 0

 

[wicked-one]

Maxtor Atlas 10k IV 36GB SCSI (Primary) & Maxtor 7200RPM 8MB (Storage). SCSI is primary because I do alot of multi-tasking. Will upgrade the Maxtor when I need to download more porn... That 10k is going to 15k as soon as I get the chance...

 

[FuzzyBallz]

Confusing poll...

(2) WDSE 120GB/8B in RAID 0 on FastTrack TX2 as boot drive. 1 Maxtor Plus9 160GB/8MB as storage drive. No freaking partitions. Just 2 huge chunks.

 

[JoT]

How is it confusing? I tried my very best to NOT confuse, but it seems as though it's a blind man teaching another blind man to drive a car

 

[Radical]

I only have 1 40GB 7200RPM 2MB Cache Western Digital, but that's going to change soon.

 

[Cjwinnit]

Two disks, two optical drives, all PATA. Disks both 8mb cache WD's but different sizes. The optical drives connect to the normal IDE controller, the hard disks connect to the RAID controller which I have got set up as an ATA controller. Each device has it's own channel

 

[stan03]

hmmm my setup is a little more complicated than the poll allows ... so yea i have two 120s in Raid an 80gig sata as storage and a 250gig for linux which i can't get to work yet (linux i mean not the hdd)

 

[edwardaune]

I think you forgot about those of us who own SATA on your poll. I am running 2 Seagate 80Gig (160 total, duh) SATA RAID 9 striped and the performance is outstanding, so for those of you OCing the crap out of your machines, dont forget the biggest bottneck. Your HDD. RUN RAID!!!!!!!