Tripredacus Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 No bubble to burst! I'm still a 3Ware guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 It also may deal with how you became aware of RAID."High end" graphical workstations (we are talking of Autocad 9 or 10) bunch of SCSI disks with Adaptec controller.Already posted, but JFYI, re : I guess some of you guys are crazier than me lol!http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htmjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 The only method I am comfortable with is using RAID1 on a system volumeI don't understand why. So what if a drive fails on you once every 10 years. Reghost or reinstall, problem solved (pretty quickly too). I don't see any point to using RAID1 on a home desktop or workstation (nor do I even care for my work machines -- the day the drives die, I'll just take the opportunity to reinstall).and RAID5 or RAID10 for dataWhich is mostly pointless IMO (you have to have proper backups anyway -- mirroring and/or partity just makes the "restoring" process quicker), for my usage at least. RAID5 is CPU-hogging (unless you shell out major $ for a fancy controller), and every single RAID level you mentioned is wasteful (1 is ridiculous, 10 is still quite bad, and 5 is only "OK" with 4 drives or more) and requires a fair amount of drives for any decent capacity.RAID0 gives me plenty of speed (crazy fast file transfers/copying, very fast AV editing e.g. when trying to sync audio, etc) and nice large volumes. It's great (although SSDs will soon replace that -- I might RAID those too). Other levels waste my space (hence money), waste CPU power, use more [electrical] power for the same capacity (and more heat/noise), etc. I also would never use any software RAID controllers (like ICH, Promise, Adaptec)They work perfectly fine for the vast majority of non-server needs (of course, I wouldn't stick such a card in a high-load server). For home use, they're great and dirt cheap too. But yes, with a $800 ARC-1230 controller I'd have some more speed and perhaps 1% more CPU power available to me (then again, pray your card never dies on you, that would make recovery fun!)Areca > 3ware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Hmmm I had not heard of that manufacturer before. When talking about a workstation or a home PC, I agree with the drive failing thing. I only have experience using RAID in Servers. Well no I know there was some in VAIO but I didn't think it was a good idea for Sony to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajua Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I've been running RAID0 for about 3 or 4 years for Windows and apps/games.I use two old but capable WD 120GB drives and the performance gain over a single drive is noticeable.I have yet to see them fail *knocks on wood* and they are like 6 years old.My main desktop has Windows x64 with ICH9 and sleep/resume and spin down settings work as expected.Every time I reinstall Windows, I load the drivers from an USB flash drive, even knowing that Windows 7 has the last version included, though.Try reinstalling your RAID/AHCI drivers and see if there is a BIOS update for our motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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