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    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by spradhan01, Apr 21, 2009.

  1. spradhan01

    spradhan01 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I have two hard drivers in my laptop. Its on AHCI. I was thinking to put it to Raid 0 for performance boost but when I read about it, its said that I will lost all data if one hdd fails so is there any risk as well as other advantages of raid 0?
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    spradhan01, Apr 21, 2009
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Raid 0 effectively doubles read/write performance on a hardware raid configuration. Your laptop (XPS1730) has a software raid controller, so you are looking at about a 10% performance increase from the second drive. Unfortunately with RAID 0, access times increase, and risk increases. If one drive fails, everything is lost. RAID 0 works by splitting half of each file on each harddrive. Thus when you open a file, both drives work to open the file. If one drive fails, you have one drive full of half files. If you run RAID 0 make sure you do backups every so often.

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    So do you recommend it or not?
     
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    It all depends on what you are doing.
    If you are doing word processing, or internet, than I do not think you should even bother with RAID 0. If you do video editing, or any kind of media editing you may want to take the risk, because it will make your system overall a bit faster.

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    I would say usually gaming then?
     
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    If you are gaming, the only impact would be slightly faster game loading times. A raid array will not increase fps in gaming.

    I do not think raid 0 will be of any advantage if you are simply gaming. Keep your spanning setup you currently have

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    Thanks for the info.
     
    spradhan01, Apr 21, 2009
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    Im with K-tron. Software RAID isnt worth it
     
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    Video editing do not benefit from RAID0 for 99.999% of the time. The application itself is mostly loaded into ram thus the program's speed would not be affected 99.999% of the time.

    RAID0 is used for data bases which requires the fastest performance out of a RAID, though RAID 5, 6, 10 is more common.
     
    jackluo923, Apr 21, 2009
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    RAID0 is rarely used except for enthusiasts since most databases require redundancy. No company I know employs RAID0 for any sort of use.
     
    sgogeta4, Apr 22, 2009
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    RAID0 is used for data bases which requires the fastest performance out of a RAID, though RAID 5, 6, 10 is more common
     
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    Yes, and 99% of companies don't need max performance. They can just as easily have very fast performance and redundancy from several additional drives.
     
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    So I would go without RAID as I dont want to loose my files if one disk fails. Also will there any problems if 2 hdd are different in rpms?Just for info.. :D
     
    spradhan01, Apr 22, 2009
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    If you aren't in RAID, it doesn't matter if your HDDs are different size or speed.
     
    sgogeta4, Apr 22, 2009
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    So what if its in raid with different size and speed?
     
    spradhan01, Apr 22, 2009
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