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• Why will you be going with a raid setup? Will you be using the "RAID" options that most motherboards have... : Prozium
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  Why do you want to do this exactly? RAID0 doesn't really improve regular desktop performance by much. : sanchez
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    yeah, software raid0 can't be that much of a boost, just get an ssd? : dextius
    • Even hardware RAID 0. Desktop use, even gaming, just doesn't demand the sustained disk throughput to see... : Arcanum
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  I went Drobo. 5x 1TB drives and I'm ripping my entire DVD collection to it. I don't know what you plan ... : bobokiller
  • and sorry, yes, I agree with dextius, SSD for performance vs. RAID-0. Wasn't quite reading the post prop... : bobokiller
• now you have TWO points of failure! : hirez
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  raid0? thats crazy. Why not buy an SSD for your OS and stuff u want fast, and a cheap big 2TB drive for y... : gyokuro
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    Its pretty easy to set it up, I have two 250gb drives in raid-0 for my main drive. I just also have my u... : semaphore
    • I'd guess so you think. There's a ton of shit outside, 'User Profile' that is required nightly. I do t... : bombay
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  Has anyone here put a pair of SSDs in raid0? : CtrlFrk
  • I did for my win 7 install. And before you guys jump on my whey would anyone do this; I wanted a bigger... : bombay
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  RAID 0 is almost universally a terrible idea. If either drive fails you are fucked. Everything is gone.... : Arcanum
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    Or only use the raid for things you want to speed up, and have a slower HDD for data you're worried about... : CtrlFrk
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      Performance increases are typically negligible in desktop use. I stand by my statement. Outside a han... : Arcanum
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        You have no way of knowing what his motives are, all we know is that he WANTS to do it. He wanted tips, "... : CtrlFrk
        • If he doesn't have a specific reason he needs it, "it's a terrible idea because" is a perfectly good tip.... : Arcanum
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          Or, as he did, make the user question his motivation and the risk/reward. Your right, OP didn't state ... : anhero
          • plus the OP mentioned "I've never done a RAID setup before" : doomed
  • I use RAID 1 for my main OS drive. 2 x 1TB drives, peace of mind. : Ceeva
  • It's fine, just have a backup. : baconisgod
• raid-0 is basically a complete waste of time unless you're working with uncompressed 1920x1080 or higher ... : Toraz Chryx
• RAID-0, as in 0 is the amount of data you will have if it fails : rosewood
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  After reading the responses from the top men posting here, it seems you're entering very dangerous territ... : CtrlFrk
  • I bet you endorse monster cables too. : Prozium
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  a single SSD is way the fuck faster than two spinning drives in RAID0 : electroly
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    this is the truth. ignore everything else said in this thread. : ucanbfuzzy
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      you mean ignore almost every comment which agrees with electroly's statement? I think not good sir. : thecray
      • yeah i'm late to the party. SSD, glio1337. shit is tight : electroly
• I'm thinking maybe you're thinking Raid-1, is your goal to keep your data safe or performance of some kin... : royalally
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  Raid 0 doubles your chances of a data loss if a drive fails. Raid 5 ftw. : sr71photo
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    Or RAID 10 for speed and redundancy, though you still won't see meaningful speed gains in normal desktop ... : Arcanum
    • I did when I ran it, but I had 6 drives in the 10. I've since moved to r6 on a 3ware controller for the... : bombay
  • My understanding is raid5 has terrible write lock features. Mirrored stripes! : anhero
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    It more than doubles your chance of failure due to write patterns/etc. : batkiwi
    • Well, to be fair, not really because most of these today take a SQL write example. But they never answ... : bombay
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  No RAID 0 then! It's just that I've seen a noticeable negative performance change when going FROM two ... : glio1337
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    Spend $150 on a decent SSD and install the OS on that. I shelled out $120 for intel's 40gb budget drive b... : Prozium
    • Yup. Programs should buffer the reads of stuff like video well enough from the secondary drive. However, ... : anhero
  • dude I just got a 32 GB SSD from Corsair for $55 last week. There is no excuse not to install the OS to a... : MikkleThePickle
• I have 2 x 1tb drive in RAID1 currently for my main data share... its great. : rmjackson
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  RAID0 on actual normal hard disks? Are you crazy? Whut. : abrasion
  • in the bhut : moshman
  • I have real world examples for which this makes total and complete sense. For real. But I doubt tha... : bombay