> Ah, sadly I am planning to Raid 0 them. I decided to go with > the fastest possible C: drive config I could (and yes, I > realise that raid 0 doubles that chance of catastrophic C: > drive failure so my backup regime will be rigorous). >
I don't want to rain on your parade so to speak as far as RAID is concerned but there was a discussion a while back on a hardware list I'm on regarding hard drive speeds. I'll quote a couple of emails on the subject below. I can't verify what is said, but it does make sense, to me at least. "- Same disk I/O always blows--that's why RAID0 is retarded except for a VERY SELECT FEW situations. - Access time is FAR more important than sequential throughput on a boot volume--that is why the Raptors are so good - The T7K250 (I have one also) has NCQ whereas the Raptor does not - The T7K250 also has a huge advantage in aerial density - RAID0 often slows down a boot volume. Why? As array size grows, seeks get slower, and seek time is the most important thing on a boot volume." "Oh, I never meant to suggest you were [a retard]. There is a lot of misinformation out there about what RAID0 is good for. The truth is that there are only a very select few situations where it is useful...raw video capture (where data writes need to be, say, 50MB/s or greater at all times...like capturing uncompressed content or HD content), very rapid processing of video (not encoding, encoding is almost never disk I/O bound, but muxing or some other similar function). Even in that situation, it would be better to have to independent disks: read from one and write to the other. However, utilizing two RAID0 arrays in that case could improve speed significantly. You see a lot of people out there running RAID0 on a boot volume. Most of these people don't realize that the impact on boot performance can in fact be -negative-, and the risk of data loss goes up tremendously." Basically, if you want the fastest boot times then get a Raptor or similar drive. Sorry to take this thread more OT. N. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
