Re: RAID, SCHMAID.......

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:27:14 GMT, sublimeone
<davidpatrickwelch--@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


If you do a lot of chewing on very large files RAID 0 is good.
Otherwise there is some benefit, but IMHO it's probably smarter to put
your os & apps on a 10K or 15K drive than a 7.2k raid 0.


You're probably right and Rod Speed seems to agree with you. If by chewing
on large files you mean 6-40 meg photo RAWs and PSD's as wells as MP3s and

No. That's not a very compelling argument for raid.

DVD rips then I should probably look into the RAID, NO?

DVD rips- eh...

How frequent? That also tends to work pretty well on single drives.
I'm thinking about being more heavily entrenched in large disk work.

You also have to weigh the cost (including headaches)/benefits. Load
balancing with faster disks tends to be a more sane & beneficial
approach to ATA raid0 in most circumstances. Tiering the storage also
makes sense for the wallet.
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