Wow, plenty of negativity there, maybe I should do a throughput test and see if there is any difference?
Well anyway, as Greg says, the RAID 0 appears as a single drive on the system, its double the trouble as its twice the drives hence twice the possibility of failure and all the data. Saying that, I've not had a drive go down for a year or so now, even on a server, so they seem to be getting more reliable. The mobo sets up the RAID for you in the firmware, that part is quite easy, never tried 5 on it yet, probably never will now. RAID 5 again, as said before, is OK for stuffed drives, but its 3 times (or more) more likely to have a mobo (and everything) being lost, you can't win! (I have had HDD controllers fail twice recently on a laptop and a desktop.) The only thing I do is externally back up onto a 2TB drive before, with new footage and afte,r when the editing is done with. (Project files and any finished video.) I suppose the only other way to speed up easily things would be to get one of them single Raptor 10K (rpm) drives, trouble is they are not large drives. Maybe for the OS and programs though. Solid state is not really ready for excessive read/writes yet, or large capacity, hence I stuck with what I have. At least if the mobo dies I have more or less everything to hand. My setup works well at the moment, could do with a little more RAM (who's couldn't?), so until it blows up..... Cheers, Neil. On 26 April 2011 05:22, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 4/25/11, miljerizem <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am a little confused with the Raid 0 setup. > > It would fit in my budget. > > RAID 5 would be nice but would break the budget. > > RAID 0 stripes data across two or more drives. If any one drive quits you > lose everything. The main advantage to RAID 0 was it improved read/write > speed due to the transfer rate capability of the interface being so much > faster than any single drive. > > With SATA and 500+ gig drives there's not much point to RAID 0. > > RAID 5 stripes the data across 3 or more drives with about one drive's > worth of space being used for parity data. This can survive the loss of any > ONE drive then can rebuild the data once the bad drive is replaced. > > Do some web searching and you can find a hardware RAID 5 PCI Express > controller at a good price, though ones with all *internal* connectors seem > hard to find. Most of the 4-port ones have two internal and two external > connectors. Dunno why. > > SATA drives have dropped drastically in price, especially if you get > refurbished ones. > > You do NOT want to use software RAID. I'd stay away from RAID controllers > built into motherboards. A big advantage of a hardware RAID plug-in card is > you can move the controller and drives to another computer if the > motherboard fails. If you can't get the exact same model and revision of > motherboard, your chances of data recovery get really small and/or very > expensive. > > I've never tried moving a software RAID (on a plug-in controller or built > in) to another PC, so I dunno if that has any pitfalls looming. Software > RAID puts more load on your CPU because it uses a driver instead of being > transparently handled by the controller. > > Hardware RAID appears to the operating system as a single large drive. The > OS knows nothing, sees nothing but a single drive. Most hardware RAID > controllers do have drivers to allow their configuration software to see the > individual drives for setup and management. Most of them have built in > firmware which can be accessed during bootup so the array can be built > without having an OS installed. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
