Raid 0 & 3 drives? Install OS on RAID or not?

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I'm setting up an XP RAID 0 system with 3 drives, two 10k Raptors
(RAID), and a 7200 RPM 80gig drive.

Should I put the OS on the RAID Raptors and use the 80gig for backing
up the RAID volume?

Or should I put XP on the 80 gig non-RAID drive and devote the
remainder of the drive (another partition) to backing up the RAID
twins, which would contain applications and data.

I using the system for video editing, Office work, and Flight
Simulator.

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
Previously Ron said:
I'm setting up an XP RAID 0 system with 3 drives, two 10k Raptors
(RAID), and a 7200 RPM 80gig drive.
Should I put the OS on the RAID Raptors and use the 80gig for backing
up the RAID volume?
Or should I put XP on the 80 gig non-RAID drive and devote the
remainder of the drive (another partition) to backing up the RAID
twins, which would contain applications and data.
I using the system for video editing, Office work, and Flight
Simulator.
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I would put the OS on the other disk. For video editng
you need fast transfer rates. The OS and applications are
more balanced between access time and transfer rate. And
any access to the OS/applications would signficantly slow
down the RAIDed disks.

Arno
 
So your suggesting putting the OS on the non-RAID drive?

And applications like Office or Flight Sim?
 
Forget RAID 0, put the OS on a single Raptor. Get a third external drive for
backup.

| I'm setting up an XP RAID 0 system with 3 drives, two 10k Raptors
| (RAID), and a 7200 RPM 80gig drive.
|
| Should I put the OS on the RAID Raptors and use the 80gig for backing
| up the RAID volume?
|
| Or should I put XP on the 80 gig non-RAID drive and devote the
| remainder of the drive (another partition) to backing up the RAID
| twins, which would contain applications and data.
|
| I using the system for video editing, Office work, and Flight
| Simulator.
|
| Thanks for any suggestions.
 
That's exactly what I decided to do: Not going with RAID now. I decided I
have enough headaches in my life for now.
 
Skyking said:
So your suggesting putting the OS on the non-RAID drive?
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No, he is obviously suggesting that video editing was never ever possible
until the Raptors came out this year and then only when used in RAID0.
 
Previously Skyking said:
So your suggesting putting the OS on the non-RAID drive?
Click to expand...

Yes. Better reliability and much less interference
with the video-editing software. If it where only
two disks, I would advise puttoing OS and video
editing on separate disks.
And applications like Office or Flight Sim?
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The non-RAID disk as well, because of reliability.
They will not benefit much from a faster disk anyway.
But this is non-critical, unless video-editing and
other applications are run at the same time, in which
case they should not be on the same disk as the video
files.

Arno
 
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