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post #41 of 46
5/13/03 at 5:20pm
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since C: 10 gig (os and drivers) is in tha same physical location of half of the dynamic disk (raid0) it will defeat the purpose of the raid0. I think that in order to work correctly you need three hard drives like somebody else said.

c: os drive0
d: drive1 and drive2 raid0
Can anyone tell me how must faster this setup would actually be? I'm thinking of buying an 8887-V so I can set something like this up, but if I'm not going to notice that big of a difference I might go another route.
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post #42 of 46
5/13/03 at 10:21pm
If you REALLY need blistering HDD performance. Get a 60GB 5400 rpm drive and 2 40GB 5400 RPM drives

Partition #1 on Disk0 as 10GB C: (OS)
Partition #2 on Disk0 as ~45GB E: (Backups for RAID0)
RAID 0 using DISK1 & 2 Partition #3 as 80GB D: (Apps and Storage)
You might be able to compress your RAID0 onto the D: for backups but it will depend on data types. Forget the TV Tuner. It will be expensive but FAST!! I'd love to do this but can't justify the additional cost for hosting an Oracle database only once in a while.
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post #43 of 46
5/13/03 at 10:44pm
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Originally posted by amnnelson
Can anyone tell me how must faster this setup would actually be? I'm thinking of buying an 8887-V so I can set something like this up, but if I'm not going to notice that big of a difference I might go another route.
I have almost this exact setup...

10GB C: OS partition (drive 0)
10GB C:\applications\ Dynamic Disk (drive 1)
100GB D:\ software RAID of remaining 50GB of each drive...

I have noticed almost NO improved performance (I load all the games on D:, as well as my scratch disks). I'm close to re-formatting and re-setting up this rig to just C:, D:, and E: (10, 50, 60) and be done with it.

Not real impressed with MS's dynamic disk thing. I mostly did it just for braggin rights (yeah, my laptop is RAIDed...) lol, yeah, that's real braggin' there.

-myrkat

EDIT: I did test the disks through NERO's disk-test thing and the RAID-0 drive did score VERY CLOSE to TWICE the score that the non-RAIDED disk did... so there WAS a performance gain, it just didn't really feel like it. This morning I disabled HT and deleted all the dynamic disk (RAID) stuff and re-installed (to further explore the 802.11g miniPCI card issue I'm having).
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post #44 of 46
5/15/03 at 2:22pm
bump
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post #45 of 46
5/25/03 at 2:30am
Hardware raid for the 8888...PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! two 60 5400s raided might be close to my fantasy 7200, well probably not but I can dream can't I.


on another note I think storagereview had a comparison that showed raid for speed was less effective on slower (spindle speed) drives. Only problem is I think they lost it in the big OOOPS.
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post #46 of 46
5/26/03 at 9:05am
The Canterwood and Springdale mainboards have Serial ATA RAID 0/1 implemented in the chipset.

If the 8888 or the new Alienware Area 51-m (are they the same?) is based on that desktop mainboard (which they must be for 800Mhz FSB, right?) maybe our dreams of h/w RAID will be fulfilled?
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