OptikaliLLusion Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 Alright... how quickly does Windows (assuming you have it) load up for you? And is there much of a difference between 16k and 32k and, let's say, 128k? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilkev715 Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 (edited) With raid 0 windows XP pro loads up a tiny bit faster compared to a single drive. Not all applications/games/OS/etc. will benefit from raid 0. As far as stripe size, you might see a difference in benches, but not that much. Edit: check out this article over at Anandtech Edited December 25, 2004 by lilkev715 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptikaliLLusion Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 Okay. So applications like video editing software (real ones, not movie maker), Photoshop, CAD, etc benefit more from RAID than Windows XP? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilkev715 Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 (edited) Video editing usually benefits from raid 0. I am not sure about photoshop/CAD though. Raid 0 will pull high numbers in benchmarks like HD tach, but in real world usage your milage may vary. All I know is that when i defrag my HD it defrags a lot faster in raid 0. Plus, you also have to remember that your silicon image raid controller is on the highly congested PCI bus. If it had its own dedicated bus overall performance would probably increase. Edited December 25, 2004 by lilkev715 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptikaliLLusion Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 Ah well. Win some, lose some. At least I have a SLIGHT performance gain and 160GB of space. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted December 26, 2004 Posted December 26, 2004 (edited) You do have a performance gain over an ide drive but the silicon image controller sucks on the Infinity. On mine with a 2500 it would take about 1 pass on a new install then get to about 3.5 after loading up all my stuff. Oops brainfart! Edited December 26, 2004 by ccokeman Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted December 26, 2004 Posted December 26, 2004 I'm running raid-0 36gb raptors, and I love them. I went from a single 40gb 2mb cache ide to 1 raptor, and that was a HUGE improvement, then I went from that single to 2 in raid-0 with 32k stripe size, and xp loads a few seconds faster, but I see the biggest difference in load times on games, photoshop (about 3 seconds fully loaded after clicking icon), and autocad, inventor 8 etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSternMystic Posted December 27, 2004 Posted December 27, 2004 Average read: 95.1MB/s That sounds wierd. Because on my Dell (One S-ATA 120GB 7200RPM 8MB) I get 86-88MB/s on that test, and that's just one drive. I'd expect higher from Raid 0? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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