Hi All

Just wondering how many of you have tried a 4 drive RAID 0 setup?

Ive got 2 250GB Hitachi T7K250 and have 2 more coming, really tempted to have a 1TB RAID 0 setup

and when 1 drive goes tits up you will cry :-D
No mirror? No reduntancy? No Brains  :mrgreen:

Quote from: Eggtasticoand when 1 drive goes tits up you will cry :-D
No mirror? No reduntancy? No Brains  :mrgreen:

Ill have backups of important stuff and I have a nice nifty unattended Windows install disk with SP2 and drivers and stuff, so not much hassle to reinstall

Quote from: Eggtasticoand when 1 drive goes tits up you will cry :-D
No mirror? No reduntancy? No Brains  :mrgreen:

No problem on a gaming rig - providing you have proper backup

Ive got 6 80gig Sata2 drives in raid 0

built for speed, not storage

all depends if you have somewhere else to store all your important stuff :O

om a side note... are you using onboard raid? a software raid card, or a hardware raid card ?

Im unsing the software onbord stuff.... but Im not sure if I should get a hardware card instead.... my thinking behind the onbord was that it;s sata2 so can run at 300mb/sec... where as the PCI buss a card would be plugged into would top out at 133mb/sec (iirc)

Quote from: WalrusbonzoIll have backups of important stuff and I have a nice nifty unattended Windows install disk with SP2 and drivers and stuff, so not much hassle to reinstall

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Not considered raid 5 or redundancy not your mind I take it?

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Quote from: WalrusbonzoIll have backups of important stuff and I have a nice nifty unattended Windows install disk with SP2 and drivers and stuff, so not much hassle to reinstall

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Quote from: CypherNot considered raid 5 or redundancy not your mind I take it?

No, want pure speed, got backups elsewhere.

Quote from: knightyIve got 6 80gig Sata2 drives in raid 0

built for speed, not storage

all depends if you have somewhere else to store all your important stuff :O

om a side note... are you using onboard raid? a software raid card, or a hardware raid card ?

Im unsing the software onbord stuff.... but Im not sure if I should get a hardware card instead.... my thinking behind the onbord was that it;s sata2 so can run at 300mb/sec... where as the PCI buss a card would be plugged into would top out at 133mb/sec (iirc)

Onboard nForce 4, so its a hardware solution.

i did a 4 drive raid 0 with ibm death stars
but broke it down before i lost every thing

Quote from: elspuddyi did a 4 drive raid 0 with ibm death stars
but broke it down before i lost every thing

isnt that the pc equivalent of playing Russian roulette with a single shot dueling pistol?

4 identical drives, preferably from 4 different suppliers.  Failing that you want to get 2 from 2 different suppliers in the hope of getting different batches.  Personally I would recommend RAID0+1 if you want speed & reliability.  Youve got massive read speeds with a 0+1, and the write speed wont be too shabby either.  

Quote from: WalrusbonzoOnboard nForce 4, so its a hardware solution.

Are you sure?  Most onboard raid is not hardware but software.

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Quote from: WalrusbonzoOnboard nForce 4, so its a hardware solution.

Are you sure?  Most onboard raid is not hardware but software.

nForce 4 is a hardware solution.

Pretty sure, CPU usage is next to nothing when Im doing disk intensive stuff.