Somewhat OT: RAID 0

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With the risk of adding fuel to the current controversy:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101

Excerpt from the 'Final Words' section:

"If you haven't gotten the hint by now, we'll spell it out for you:
there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer.
The real world performance increases are negligible at best and the
reduction in reliability, thanks to a halving of the mean time between
failure, makes RAID-0 far from worth it on the desktop.

There are some exceptions, especially if you are running a particular
application that itself benefits considerably from a striped array, and
obviously, our comments do not apply to server-class IO of any sort. But
for the vast majority of desktop users and gamers alike, save your money
and stay away from RAID-0.

....

Bottom line: RAID-0 arrays will win you just about any benchmark, but
they'll deliver virtually nothing more than that for real world desktop
performance. That's just the cold hard truth."


Comments? :)
 
With the risk of adding fuel to the current controversy:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101

Excerpt from the 'Final Words' section:

"If you haven't gotten the hint by now, we'll spell it out for you:
there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer.
The real world performance increases are negligible at best and the
reduction in reliability, thanks to a halving of the mean time between
failure, makes RAID-0 far from worth it on the desktop.

There are some exceptions, especially if you are running a particular
application that itself benefits considerably from a striped array, and
obviously, our comments do not apply to server-class IO of any sort. But
for the vast majority of desktop users and gamers alike, save your money
and stay away from RAID-0.

...

Bottom line: RAID-0 arrays will win you just about any benchmark, but
they'll deliver virtually nothing more than that for real world desktop
performance. That's just the cold hard truth."


Comments? :)
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When I can load OOwriter in about 3 seconds compared to 17 seconds for a
single drive in MDMA mode 2, I'd say all their analogy is pure BS.:-)
If you do nothing but check email and surf the web, then it's obvious
overkill, but for many desktop apps it's a real performance increase.
transfer rates are transfer rate and twice as fast is still twice as fast.:-)
And if you need a single large storage area, it beats the other options
speed wise.
 
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