Will a raid 0 setup really improve the speed of my computer?
raid 0, as in striping. I’ve been told this can nearly double your speeds. My pc i am building has 8gb 1066mHz ddr2 am2+ phenom and all that. I’m wondering if raid 0 is worth it. If one of the Hdd’s fails…well…thats a bummer, my data is gone. Should I just go with a raid 1? (I dont have the money for a raid 10)
RAID
To be of any value, Hard Drive reliability is critical. Hardware
RAID is an approach that protects you against disk failure.
RAID
systems can be configured to spread or stripe data
across a set of drives, which not only prevents data loss due
to failure of an individual drive, but also improves overall system performance. However, even the best RAID isn’t perfect; for instance, while it’s unlikely, two disks could fail at the same time, or the controller could develop a fault. Nevertheless, a properly configured RAID will be invaluable asset, especially on larger networks.
The following are different RAID levels. The three most common
are 0, 3, and 5, with each level having its own advantages and
drawbacks.
Level 0—Provides data striping (spreading out blocks of
each file across multiple disks) but no redundancy. This
improves performance but doesn’t deliver fault tolerance.
Level 1—Provides disk mirroring (a technique in which data
is written to two duplicate disks simultaneously).
Level 3—Same as Level 0, but also keeps one dedicated
disk for error correction data. This provides good performance
and a low level of fault tolerance.
Level 5—Provides data striping at the byte level and also
stripe error correction information, which results in excellent
performance and good fault tolerance.
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