How many drives are supported with raid?

[red930]

Found a screenshot from it .

4 x SATA150 drives maxtors DM9 w/8MB cache in nvraid :

 

Way more impressive than what I'm getting, what strip/cluster did you use? I'm sitting around 100MB/sec average, 270MB/sec burst, though I am using a large stripe of 128k and 32k cluster. (lotsa large files and such)

[syar2003]

I think it was 16k stripe (always used 16 or 32 for mixed content and if OS is on it) , and i always use default cluster of 4k .

[vrodforums]

Well thanks again for the information. I did dig out and try 4 Maxtor 100gb drives running raid 0 and did not get near as good of results as you did but the drives are still very fast and do what I want them to do. I guess I will have to spring for a couple more 250gb like I usually run now.

 

http://www.v-rodforums.com/member/bench/drivetest.JPG

[deff_ins]

i had run some () tests on my 2x raptor 36gb raid0 with diffrent stripe block/ntfs cluster size.

here are results:

i hope they will be usefull for you.

 

tested with pcmark05 hdd test suite.

[Sorrento]

How many drives can be set up in a single raid array (using SATA drives)? What I mean is can I use four drives in a single raid 0 array or would I have to split the 4 drives as two. I did a search but was unable to find the answer.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Max

Using 4x Hitachi SATA2 right now in a single array RAID-0 (16/4)... I think 32kb stripe size works best for 4 hdd, but diference could be minimal.