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Does anyone RAID their hardrives?
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| Synergy |
| Im just wondering if anyone uses RAID striping on their harddrives? I think I want to do this because it seems it would be tremendously benficial with production. |
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| Dj Thy |
Yup, Raid 0 here, 2x60 GB ata133. There's is a noticeable gain in read speeds and throughput speeds, but if you expect a huge increase forget it. It's just noticeable that's all.
I tried testing it with cubase sx full of audio tracks of 2 minutes (all tracks full length, not a montage). That way you can really stress the harddrives to the max. I gained about 5-7 tracks with Raid before they started dropping again. I guess when you experiment with the stripe size, you could gain some more. |
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| mantisnl |
can anyone explain 2 me what this "raid" is?
thnx in advance;) |
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| rahvin |
| Striping is good, but go with more ram before. More ram means your HD gets used less. Plus ram is cheap cheap cheap now, it would cost you much less for big gains if you picked up another 256mb for your system. |
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| Teknikol |
| quote: | Originally posted by rahvin
Striping is good, but go with more ram before. More ram means your HD gets used less. Plus ram is cheap cheap cheap now, it would cost you much less for big gains if you picked up another 256mb for your system. |
True, I'm using RAID 0 and I notice the difference, but it isn't very special. Increasing your RAM would be a lot better |
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| big dave |
| quote: | Originally posted by mantisnl
can anyone explain 2 me what this "raid" is?
thnx in advance;) |
same here ive never heard of this before! wht is it? :conf: |
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| Dj Thy |
Redundant (some people also use Random) Array of Inexpensive Disks.
It's a special system which uses several harddisks to get a complete array of HD's used in a special manner.
There are several RAID methods, but most used are (mainly because they come on those onboard controllers nowadays) : 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD
RAID 0 : striping. It uses two harddisks (preferably of the same size, if you use different sizes, the resulting array will be twice the size of the smallest disk) and it results in one logical drive twice the size of one single disk. Data is written across both the drives at the same time. You gain reading speeds and transfer speeds. Drawback, if one of the drives fails, the whole array is lost... Not recommended for data servers.
RAID 1 : mirroring. Uses two drives, one serves as a mirror of the first. The resulting size is the size of one single disk (so if you use two 40 gig disks, you'll have an array of 40 gig). If one drive fails, the data can still be retrieved from the other one. Recommended for systems where secure data storage is necessary (servers, ...).
RAID 0+1 : combination of the two first. You need at least 4 HD's, resulting size will be twice the size of the smallest harddrive. You'll have a striped array, that is mirrored for safety.
JBOD : Just a bunch of disks, basically you are using the RAID ports as regular IDE slots, no special array mumbojumbo whatsoever.
Pro Raid controllers can have even more specialised features, like a dedicated parity disc, spread parity, ... |
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| mantisnl |
| thnx for the explanation Dj Thy :) |
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