RAID Striping

[johnspon]

I have been looking around seeing boards that have RAID and a few people striping (without redundancy) two drives for speed purposes.

Have you seen any decent speed incease?

[moebius]

YES!!!
On SiSoft Sandra, the last time i benchmarked, i got over 42000 with my RAID 0. Without RAID 0, the benchmark was somewhere around 24000. BTW, i have two IBM 75GXP 40GB hard drives in RAID 0. These are 7200rpm Ultra ATA 100 drives.
I highly recommend setting up RAID 0 as a cheap alternative to getting SCSI drives.
The only problem i've had is with installing Linux. The install just refuses to see the drives as one continuous RAID 0 partition; instead it sees it as two drives. So, i haven't been able to install my beloved Redhat.
See my other post: Help installing Linux (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100196)

[Philip1952]

If you think about raid 0. Learn to back up often. Anything on it can disappear with no notice. It doens't take much to break a raid stripe.
I say if you have something you don't want to loose. Don't leave it on a raid setup without a burnt off backup copy.
I have used raid 0. Now I use an Atlas 2 10k SCSI drive. It is just as fast with out the other problems. Cheetah 15k in the not to distant future.
Also HDtach is a better bench mark program.
Here (http://www.tcdlabs.com/hdtach.htm) you go.

[namrak]

I thought this might be a pertinent issue in terms of onboard Raid. I have not as yet, gotten my onboard Promise Raid chip on my Asus A7V133a mobo to work. The mobo refuses to see my drives as one. And by the way johnspon, the A7V133a only supports Raid 0. Anyway, there is no problems when I switch over to regular ATA-100, but the Raid setup is going nowhere fast for me. If anybody has experience with this particular issue, I would greatly appreciate some help.