Reference Guide - Hard Disk Drives - All about Raid 0,1,5,10,50?

[Goober]

These are some guides that I found over at storage review.com, worth a read and look especially for the beginner.

This I think is a great read on RAID Levels, should help you get your head around it all. About 21 pages.

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/index.html

Reference Guide - Hard Disk Drives

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/index.html

Hope you enjoy,  Goober 

[bkemp]

Interesting,

In RAID 0 there is no redundancy so it is not true RAID but should be called drive concatenation.

Bernie

[james200410]

Hi guys,

So is running RAID for FSX beneficial ?

Like will there that much increase in performance by running RAID ?

Been around computers for a long time now, but have never got into this area.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

Cheers

Adam

[Ryan Mason]

Adam, I have a fairly mediocre laptop that I run fsx on, I just reinstalled the whole OS and switched back to having 2 seperate HDD's from a RAID 0 setup (I have 2 500GB 7200RPM drives) I did this to test if it was beneficial to have a dedicated FSX HDD, but after my experiment it looks like its time to reinstall again and go back to raid 0, results being that I see a major delay in processing time on tasks not being in raid 0, it takes almost double the time to load every program and the system is easily frozen by using multiple applications at once where it was able to handle several programs including fsx all at once without an issue in raid 0, again everyones computers are different as well as experiences with certain setups so it is all relative to your setup I guess.

[james200410]

Hello Aussiecop and thanks for your reply,

I have a i7 920 Oc'd to 3.8GHz atm and running quite stable on water cooling,

I also have a GTX295 running on the latest drivers and OC'd 33% when running FSX.

I have several HDD's on my computer which I could RAID 2 320GB's if need be, but from your comment, I still dont know if I would be better off.

Is RAID worth the hassel ?

Sorry to be a pain.

Adam

[Ryan Mason]

well I only have a 2.5 Ghz and I dont pertain to know bugger all about computers appart from what I learn here, but I notice the speed at which things load up has slowed about 40% since switching back to sperate drives, I am about to revert back as there was a definate difference in my mind.

[abulaafia]

the only config possibly worth it for FSX is RAID0, and even that brings more during loading than actual flying. I stopped bothering with it on my new PC. Waiting for next generation SSDs out in November instead.

[Ian Routley]

Raid on a new Pc on the intel Northbridge is worth it but.  Not worth the hassle on an existing setup.

Standalone card w hardware RAID might be, thoigh

or an SSD.

When windows packs it in I'll be going Win7 on a new Gen SSD.