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Hard drive striping
Hi
Has anyone ever used 2 X 1 TB striped for there OS
How does that compare to a SSD
My rig has a 300Gig SATA for the OS and 2 x 1 TB for storage and was thinking about striping the TB's but only if there is a big enough difference in performance
Any help would be great
Has anyone ever used 2 X 1 TB striped for there OS
How does that compare to a SSD
My rig has a 300Gig SATA for the OS and 2 x 1 TB for storage and was thinking about striping the TB's but only if there is a big enough difference in performance
Any help would be great
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OptionsLee H Member Posts: 1,135I just realised that ive had 3 scuzzy drives for a while just dug one out and its 3 of these here
IBM Ultrastar 18ES DNES-309170 9GB HDD Hard Drive - Reviews & Prices @ Yahoo! Shopping
I also have a scuzzy PCI card and ribbon
Would using these 3 drives striped be any faster than 1 x 1 TB SATA or even 2 X 1 TB SATA
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Optionsajs1976 Member Posts: 1,945 ■■■■□□□□□□how fast are the 300 gb and the TB drives? What are your options for a controller? Software or hardware raid?
If you have the same drives specs (RPM, connection speeds, etc). A hardware mirrored set should be slower then a single drive, because of a single controller writing to two drives. If you can setup duplexing (mirrored drives on different controllers), then that will be faster then the single drive, because now you have two controllers doing the work for you.Andy
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OptionsLee H Member Posts: 1,135how fast are the 300 gb and the TB drives? What are your options for a controller? Software or hardware raid?
If you have the same drives specs (RPM, connection speeds, etc). A hardware mirrored set should be slower then a single drive, because of a single controller writing to two drives. If you can setup duplexing (mirrored drives on different controllers), then that will be faster then the single drive, because now you have two controllers doing the work for you.
Without opening my PC case ide say they were all 7200 rpm, the 2 TB's drives are samsung F3 spinpoint drives
How can I see what my options are for a controller, never done this before so apologies for being a noob
With the Scuzzy PCI card thats a hardware raid isnt it, I have 3 X 9 gig drives that I could just use for my OS, would that be faster than 2 TB;s drives striped. -
Optionsajs1976 Member Posts: 1,945 ■■■■□□□□□□Just because it is a SCSI card, doesn't mean it has RAID capabilities.
I might not be comparing them properly or looking at the right info, but it looks like the old IBM drives have a transfer rate of 40 MB/sec while the samsungs are 3 GB/sec. That is a huge difference, so I would stick with the new drives and scrap the old IBMs.
Why are you looking at switching the drives?Andy
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Optionstiersten Member Posts: 4,505Has anyone ever used 2 X 1 TB striped for there OSHow does that compare to a SSDI also have a scuzzy PCI card and ribbonWould using these 3 drives striped be any faster than 1 x 1 TB SATA or even 2 X 1 TB SATA
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Optionstiersten Member Posts: 4,505I might not be comparing them properly or looking at the right info, but it looks like the old IBM drives have a transfer rate of 40 MB/sec while the samsungs are 3 GB/sec. That is a huge difference, so I would stick with the new drives and scrap the old IBMs.
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OptionsLee H Member Posts: 1,135OK then I hear ya them IBM drives are back in the s**t box
Had a thought, it seems crazy to have such large drives in a stripe cos if one goes then the data on both has gone, so what if I had my 300 GIG as disk 1, then partitioned both my TB's with 300 GIG partition as disk 2 and 3, then stiped the 3 of them, plus leaving me with 700 GIG on each TB for storage
Would that work?
Just looked into my mobo and it doesnt have RAID biult in so does this mean I can only have a software RAID. -
Optionsajs1976 Member Posts: 1,945 ■■■■□□□□□□you would need to purchase a RAID controller card.Andy
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OptionsLee H Member Posts: 1,135Thanks ajs I shall be purchasing this baby very soon
StarTech.com 4 Port PCI SATA RAID Controller Adapter Card - Aria Technology
If I connect my 3 SATA drives to this, 300gig, 1TB and 1TB could I have the 1TB's partitioned 300GIG so I have 3 X 300GIG stripe for my OS this would then give me 2 X 700GIG storage
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OptionsSteveLord Member Posts: 1,717If you have/get a motherboard with the Intel ICH10R controller, you're better of than any cheap RAID card. They're cheap for a reason. If you do not use your computer for more than surfing the web, you will not notice any difference in performance. But you'll have wasted a lot of time in reformatting a large set of disks.WGU B.S.IT - 9/1/2015 >>> ???