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cobra · 09-02-2001, 01:47 PM

It depends on the hardware. The very expensive, yes a visible difference.
With my onboard ide raid, I can't visibly 'see" a difference, but behind the scenes it works a little faster, since I am not dropping frames in video capture with striping like I did with mirroring.
So to answer your question with a yes or no, YES there is a perceptible difference. In my machine anyway.
If you are not doing any video capture or anything that is "time critical" in writing the data, there is no need for it. IMHO
But if you do want redundancy with mirrored raid, I suggest you give it a try, especially if you have alot of data that is important and don't want to risk losing it, because even new hard drives fail at ANY given moment.
Good luck.

09-02-2001, 01:47 PM	#5
cobra Don't tread on me Join Date: Mar 1999 Location: Florida Posts: 2,121	It depends on the hardware. The very expensive, yes a visible difference. With my onboard ide raid, I can't visibly 'see" a difference, but behind the scenes it works a little faster, since I am not dropping frames in video capture with striping like I did with mirroring. So to answer your question with a yes or no, YES there is a perceptible difference. In my machine anyway. If you are not doing any video capture or anything that is "time critical" in writing the data, there is no need for it. IMHO But if you do want redundancy with mirrored raid, I suggest you give it a try, especially if you have alot of data that is important and don't want to risk losing it, because even new hard drives fail at ANY given moment. Good luck. __________________ Miami, flee it like a native. Last edited by cobra; 09-02-2001 at 01:49 PM.