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    Partition Raid0 array Z vpcz13

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by paul3000h, Sep 24, 2011.

  1. paul3000h

    paul3000h Notebook Guru

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    Is a Z vpcz13 partition Raid0 array with 4 x ssd's partitioned to 2 x 128gb in the normal way when clean installing W7 or is the array broken to 2 x 2 ssd's? Would breaking it to 2 x 2 discs worsen performance?
     
    paul3000h, Sep 24, 2011
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    ComputerCowboy Sony Fanboy

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    partitioning doesn't work like that
    If you take a 4X array and cut it in half you will be using half of all four discs

    you could break the array and may two arrays that each use 2 drives then not partition anything.
     
    ComputerCowboy, Sep 25, 2011
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    paul3000h Notebook Guru

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    Does using a 4 disk array improve performance/speed?
    If so a lot more than 2 disk array?

    Do you create 2 x raid 0 partitions/disks?
     
    paul3000h, Sep 25, 2011
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    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    4 disk raid arrays are around 30% faster in the Z than 2 disk arrays. 2 disk raid arrays have half the probablility to fail compared to a 4 disk array.
     
    pyr0, Sep 25, 2011
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    paul3000h Notebook Guru

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    It seems EaseUs can resize my existing 256gb 4 disk array to 64gb then I can make a partition of the rest, about 190gb so will have a c and d drive showing?

    Is this pointless?
     
    paul3000h, Sep 25, 2011
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    paul3000h Notebook Guru

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    BTW is there any firmware for the Z's samsung ssd's?
     
    paul3000h, Sep 25, 2011
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    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    No.

    If you want to split up 256GB into 2 drives (64/192 GB) just partition the drives as you know it. Then, all partitions will run at the same speed.
     
    pyr0, Sep 25, 2011
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    So to be clear same speed and performance with 1 or 2 partitions?
     
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    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    No matter how many partitions you create in your RAID array, they all have the same speed. Partitions are just logical parts of your hard drives, other than RAID arrays. Your system sees partitons as is, the RAID controller does the job to split data up to all drives. So the speed comes from the RAID level only, the partitions won't do anything to it.

    Hope it is clear for you. For best performance: 1 RAID array with all drives included (factory standard), partition as you like.
     
    pyr0, Sep 25, 2011
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