snipermav Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 Say I was looking at getting a 10k RPM SATA drive. I read an article somewhere that said that putting 2 Raptors in RAID 0 offers little to no performance increase over a single Raptor. So if I wanted about 70 gigs in 10k form, would you get 2 36.7 drives and RAID them, or just a single 74? I'd like to hear from people who have the RAID and the single drive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LobbDogg Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 I think it is faster, I feels faster as well as Sisoftware sandra shows it faster, as well with HD Tach Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjaminw Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 I have the 2x36GB raptors that you're talking about, and when my dang RMA goes through for the POS motherboard I bought, I'll have them set up in a RAID0 as well. RAID0 is faster in theory, because you're distributing your read/writes across the two drives at the same time. I say in theory, because the sata controller manufacturers can still screw up the way they do the IO, and give you no performance increase. Do you remember where you saw that article? I'd like to read it. OK, to answer your questions, the two 36GB drives in RAID0, *should* be faster than a single 70GB drive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k1e1v1i1n Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 its almost twice as fast i have them right now and i have tested them alone and together and they r way faster when they r together Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Pistachio Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 This is probably the article he's talking about at Anandtech. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snipermav Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 (edited) Yeah, that's the one. Thanks. Edited July 8, 2004 by snipermav Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindbullets Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 this article from storagereview.com is also pretty interesting: here between that article and anandtech's, i've been dissuaded from running Raptors in RAID 0 like i planned. looks like that's just $150 to go towards a video card instead... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
broooooooce Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 I dunno, feels pretty fast to me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammin Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 I suppose you should just ask yourself wether you really need that extra speed. A single 10k raptor is going to be quite fast anyway. I would prefer to have twice the storage than a bit more speed.. i don't mind waiting that little bit longer for things to load. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilMB3017 Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 Personally, I'd like drives like that in RAID because I edit a lot of music files and that would help with rendering times and such, but I get along fine with a standard PATA drive so the cost just doesn't make sense. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowfactor Posted July 11, 2004 Posted July 11, 2004 when you use Raid 0 it cuts the read and write in half as both divers are Doing it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilMB3017 Posted July 11, 2004 Posted July 11, 2004 In theory, its in half - but the RAID chips aren't perfect, so its not any where nears half. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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