lilkev715 Posted February 20, 2004 Posted February 20, 2004 First off, I have already tried searching the forums and searching for many hours on this topic. I am going to be setting up a new RAID 0 array on my PC soon and I would like some advice from you guys. The hard drives will be WD IDE 80gb 8mb cache drives that will be on a highpoint 372 controller. Main uses for the raid 0 array are for OS (XP Pro), DVD Ripping, DivX encoding, picture hosting, online game hosting, and general use. My question is, what would be the ideal Stripe/Block size for my array to give me the best performance? I was thinking that my ideal range would be a 16k-128k block size. On a side note, how does block size relate to stripe size? (i.e. is it 8kb stripe = 16kb block?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LobbDogg Posted February 20, 2004 Posted February 20, 2004 I used 32kb and it seems to work good so far. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilkev715 Posted February 22, 2004 Posted February 22, 2004 I went with a 64k block size and it absolutely FLYS. Too bad I can't afford two raptors , oh well. Thanks for the advice though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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