RAID0 or No?

2008-03-09 09:01:43

#1

PigPopTart: Shotgun whore; +133|6565|Pacific NW, USA

I have 2 SATA Seagate Barracuda 7,200rpm 112GB HDs. They WERE running RAID0 but long story short, I got a sasser worm and it fucked everything up.

I'm ready to reformat but i'm wondering what would work better for me and maybe you guys could chime in.

I like to play BF2 and not really much else...that's all i got the computer for really and my wife edits videos and her stuff takes up a lot of space.

Would i be better off:

Option 1: Put windows XP back on it and run it the way it was (RAID0). 224GB total

Option2: Put windows on 1 of the HDs and run the other HD as storage (for my wife). 112GB each (X2), but only have BF2/FRAPS on one HD and have all my wife's stuff on D: so when she's using it she can just pull her stuff up that way.

Basically, would that run faster than having everything on RAID0 (virtually 1 HD)?

I tried to make that understandable, sorry if it's confusing.

Last edited by PigPopTart (2008-03-09 09:52:43)

Rufknsrsbro?

2008-03-09 09:05:59

#2

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6658|the land of bourbon

raid 0 is faster then one drive. raid 0 will write simultaneously to both drives, which really speeds things up. the only real problem, however, is if one drive fails, you lose everything on both. if you have a separate hard drive to store data on, that would be safest. personally i would go with your option 2. you can always run backups from d: to c:. with option 1, you risk all of your data.

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2008-03-09 09:40:20

#3

Titch2349: iz me!; +358|6629|uk

-- Lulz, titch fails at RAID --

Last edited by Titch2349 (2008-03-09 10:12:52)

2008-03-09 09:44:06

#4

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6858|SE London

What?

RAID0 makes things faster, but you don't lose any disk space. If you have 2x120GB drives you will have a total of 240GB on the RAID0 array.

2008-03-09 09:59:53

#5

PigPopTart: Shotgun whore; +133|6565|Pacific NW, USA

so if I buy the 750GB external HD I'm looking at and back everything up, then you'd all recommend RAID0?

Bertster; I was confusing RAID0 to RAID1 space, sorry.

Last edited by PigPopTart (2008-03-09 10:01:34)

Rufknsrsbro?

2008-03-09 10:12:27

#6

Titch2349: iz me!; +358|6629|uk

PigPopTart wrote:
so if I buy the 750GB external HD I'm looking at and back everything up, then you'd all recommend RAID0?

Bertster; I was confusing RAID0 to RAID1 space, sorry.

As was I.....

Edit- infact, looking at my origional post, I don't have a fucking clue what I was doing

Last edited by Titch2349 (2008-03-09 10:14:00)

2008-03-09 12:26:06

#7

[CANADA]_Zenmaster: Pope Picard II; +473|7022

PigPopTart wrote:
so if I buy the 750GB external HD I'm looking at and back everything up, then you'd all recommend RAID0?

Bertster; I was confusing RAID0 to RAID1 space, sorry.

I recommend this option. I use 2 drives in Raid and 2 backup drives for any problems. Haven't had a problem yet with any raid failures in 2 years. I still make weekly backups of important data to the backup drives though - don't get lazy. Also on the backup drives I leave a copy of all my latest drivers and software so that if windows does die (which it sometimes does) even if the raid is ok, I can reinstall everything in a few hours.

2008-03-09 13:16:31

#8

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6770|N. Ireland

I ran RAID0. A week later one drive failed and it was really bad. I ran RAID0 again and for many months I have had no problems! I've just learnt to make backups of important files

2008-03-09 13:17:46

#9

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6799|...

raid0 makes sense if you have the means to back it all up (which it sounds like you do).

Last edited by jsnipy (2008-03-09 13:18:01)

2008-03-09 14:32:08

#10

Defiance: Member; +438|6947

You should back up everything regardless of drive system, and RAID 0 does not double your drive speed.

Actual benchmarks show it's around 1-3% outside of very certain cases, those of which do not often happen on a gaming system. Load times are barely effected.

Don't waste your time on it, RAIDs star point is not speed but continuity.

2008-03-09 15:20:41

#11

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6770|N. Ireland

Defiance wrote:
You should back up everything regardless of drive system, and RAID 0 does not double your drive speed.

Actual benchmarks show it's around 1-3% outside of very certain cases, those of which do not often happen on a gaming system. Load times are barely effected.

Don't waste your time on it, RAIDs star point is not speed but continuity.

Battlefield 2 loads noticeably faster for me?

2008-03-09 15:28:47

#12

Kurazoo: Pheasant Plucker; +440|6961|West Yorkshire, U.K

I have had RAID 0 on my family PC for about 4 Years, no problems ever

My vote

2008-03-09 15:31:47

#13

De_Jappe: Triarii; +432|6804|Belgium

yep, go for raid 0, but make sure your wife's editing stuff is backed up on another disk too or you'll be sleeping on the couch as soon as one of the disks fail.

2008-03-09 21:27:35

#14

Defiance: Member; +438|6947

kylef wrote:
Defiance wrote:
You should back up everything regardless of drive system, and RAID 0 does not double your drive speed.

Actual benchmarks show it's around 1-3% outside of very certain cases, those of which do not often happen on a gaming system. Load times are barely effected.

Don't waste your time on it, RAIDs star point is not speed but continuity.
Battlefield 2 loads noticeably faster for me?

I'm going to have to go for placebo on that one.

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2008-03-09 23:00:51

#15

ReTox: Member; +100|6775|State of RETOXification

Be safe and make each disc its own array. Stripping across two or more drives without any redundancy is not advisable unless the data isn't valuable. And doing a mirror on such small volumes, imo, isn't really beneficial either. If you can, pick up a third drive of similar geometry and go RAID5 to get a mirror at 240 GB.

If you're not wanting to get a third then it's better to run two separate drives anyways so you can have windows on one and all your data/programs on another. Which is a fairly normal recommendation amongst techs.

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