Davie

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raid 0, as in striping. I've been told this can nearly double your speeds. My pc i am building has 8gb 1066mHz ddr2 am2+ phenom and all that. I'm wondering if raid 0 is worth it. If one of the Hdd's fails...well...thats a bummer, my data is gone. Should I just go with a raid 1? (I dont have the money for a raid 10)
 

Cool Guy

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Well if you are reading and writing to your HD a lot then yes it will be quicker but only when you R&W to the drive.If you max out the ram then the HD R&W time becomes less of an issue
 

BONEZ

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RAIDTo be of any value, hard drive reliability is critical. HardwareRAID is an approach that protects you against disk failure.RAID systems can be configured to spread or stripe dataacross a set of drives, which not only prevents data loss dueto failure of an individual drive, but also improves overall system performance. However, even the best RAID isn’t perfect; for instance, while it’s unlikely, two disks could fail at the same time, or the controller could develop a fault. Nevertheless, a properly configured RAID will be invaluable asset, especially on larger networks.The following are different RAID levels. The three most commonare 0, 3, and 5, with each level having its own advantages anddrawbacks.Level 0—Provides data striping (spreading out blocks ofeach file across multiple disks) but no redundancy. Thisimproves performance but doesn’t deliver fault tolerance.Level 1—Provides disk mirroring (a technique in which datais written to two duplicate disks simultaneously).Level 3—Same as Level 0, but also keeps one dedicateddisk for error correction data. This provides good performanceand a low level of fault tolerance.Level 5—Provides data striping at the byte level and alsostripe error correction information, which results in excellentperformance and good fault tolerance.
 

zurna3

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I'd advise a good SSD over RAID if that's a viable option - I setup RAID 10 on my home pc for a boot drive, a data drive, then tried hybrid hardware/software raid 10 using windows/ich10r to test the differences using 4x 750gb wd hdd's and most the times playing games the differences were neglible as random read speed is more a factor (where ssd's shine) boot times were slightly faster but not thaat much better. The SSD gave a massive improvement. Even running the 4x hdd's in a striped aray (4 way stripe) performance wasn't that great for games etc but it was brilliant demuxing/remuxing videos (mostly linear read/write work) or light encoding work - as a 2 way stripe it gave almost double the performance. Also raid 0 for home use gives the issue of slowdowns when rebuilding - i'd advise only using raid 0/10 as a data drive as using one for an os drive can be painful when you have issues with your pc due to constant rebuilds.My experience with lowish end hdd's and raid (ie WD Green/black drives) on software based raid (intel ICH10R & ICH6) gave relatively poor results overall and the performance gain wasn't worth the hassle I've hence swapped to using the 4 drives separately in a non-raid setup.
 
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